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Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work – A review by AML President Neil Andersen I am a long-time comedy enthusiast. How long? I bought and shared Tom [...]

AML is pleased to kick off the school year with a new “Media Literacy Moment #3” video. Neil Andersen and Sarah Gilpin explore concrete ways that found media experiences, like visual [...]

AML is once more pleased to offer new Grade 11 Visual Arts curriculum from Director Irene Faiz, a Visual Arts teacher at Weston C.I. in Toronto (TDSB). Here is an example of how media literacy [...]

Inside Tik Tok’s Money Machine Many students aspire to become influencers.  Is this a realistic aspiration?  How might someone achieve these goals?  How much work should they anticipate? How much [...]

One of the key attributes of AI is that it appears to think and respond, often using information it has gleaned from us directly, but also indirectly from our online behaviours. Whether this is a [...]

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Neil Andersen’s new blog, the first in a series, comments on Google’s Gemini AI through a Verge article that reveals how conflicting commands can impact the accuracy of generated [...]

Teaching Students to Write with AI: The SPACE Framework This rich and extensive article suggests that AI writing tools are transforming education, thus challenging traditional approaches. We [...]

Empowering Academic Integrity in an AI World: Building Student Skills and Confidence Through Strategic Teaching by Greta Smelko The appeal for students to use AI to bypass original writing grows. [...]