*Diana Maliszewski’s 2019 Elementary lesson on Elections – their signs and processes – is well worth reviving for a 2022 Fall activity! Elections are great opportunities for students to examine a particular media text that often accompanies these events – the election sign. Diana Maliszewski suggests that these questions and activities can work well for…
(This illustration was obtained from https://www.freepnglogos.com/pics/crown and is used under a Creative Commons license.) Monday, September 19, 2022 was the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. As different Canadian media outlets such as Global News, CP24 and CBC reported, after a certain school board initially advised staff not to initiate discussions about the Queen’s passing, the…
Check out our Special Edition September Newsletter. Diana Maliszewski has spearheaded a rich set of K-12 lesson ideas on the Monarchy as Media. And don’t forget our Fall AQ! Click here for this special edition newsletter.
Late June seems to be a popular time for conferences. For many districts, students are finished for the year (just not for elementary schools in our district) and members of the target audience are technically available to attend. ISTE was in New Orleans – but I wasn’t there. ALA was in Washington D.C. – but…
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Depending on the speaker, media education can be full of doom-sayings and dire warnings. “Beware the fakes” is the rallying cry. On November 3, members of the AML will present a talk for Third Age Learning Guelph entitled “The Good, Really Cool, and Fun Stuff”. This won’t happen in time for Media Literacy Week 2021….
On October 13, 2021, two members of the Association for Media Literacy ran a presentation, part of an eight-week series, for Third Age Learning Guelph. The topic of this particular session was Finding Trusted Sources and Evaluating Information. In this presentation, we shared a few examples of media bias charts. However, the examples we highlighted…
https://www.instagram.com/solo_orca/reel/DCuult5Jqgx/ In this guest post, educator Rachel Wood describes how she developed a series of lessons to use in the Library Learning Commons (LLC), as part of an Additional Qualification (AQ) course she took. AML would like to thank Rachel for permitting the publication of her lessons here on this site – the link…
Media educators are everywhere, providing authentic experiences to their students in unique ways. This guest post, by author Jen Balido-Cadavez, shares the way that she involved her students in creating a “Media Week” experience. The official Media Literacy Week in Canada in 2021 runs from October 25 – 30; why not attempt integrating media into…
This is an adapted version of a blog post called “Salvaging Old Lessons for New Students”, also written by Diana Maliszewski, that first appeared on the Monday Molly Musings blog on September 27, 2021. Part of the job of a teacher-librarian is to co-plan, co-teach, and co-assess with classroom teachers and other educators. Right now,…