MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER We’re excited to announce our Spring ’25 AQ for Parts 1, 2, and 3 Media Studies, plus a Part 3 webinar on AI in the K–12 classroom. We’re also partnering with [...]
By Carol Arcus
In Additional Qualifications, Blog, Elementary, Lessons and Ideas, Resources, Sarah Gilpin, Secondary
Posted February 2025 Newsletter
It’s February 2025 already! AI is on educators’ minds, as we gear up to a new PD webinar on AI in the Classroom – February 20. We also want to know whether you would like a [...]
In Blog, Directors, Elementary, Essential Frameworks, Executive, Lessons and Ideas, media literacy, Movie Review with a ML Lens, Professional Development, Resources, Sarah Gilpin
Posted Communicating in Merry Old Oz
by Sarah Gilpin, OCT; Director in Association for Media Literacy “It’s not about apti-tude. It’s the way you’re viewed!” I first saw Wicked in London’s Apollo [...]
In Blog, Directors, Elementary, Lessons and Ideas, media literacy, Movie Review with a ML Lens, Professional Development, Sarah Gilpin, Secondary
Posted Totally Ozmopolitan! Marketing the Merry Old Land of Oz
*by Sarah Gilpin, OCT & Director in The Association for Media Literacy How do you convince an audience to take time out of their busy schedules to see a film during box office opening [...]
By Carol Arcus
Posted Smart Phone Ban: An Update
(This post – originally from 2018 – poses relevant questions in light of the 2024 ban on cell phones in TorontoDSB classrooms. -ed.) The principal of Earl Grey Senior Public School [...]
In Elementary, Essential Frameworks, Lessons and Ideas, Professional Development, Resources, Secondary
Posted Using the Fake News Triangle
What is new about fake news? As with all news in the 21st Century, it is more frequent, easier to encounter but harder to verify. Where once professional editors filtered news for accuracy and [...]
By Carol Arcus
In Blog, Elementary, Essential Frameworks, Kindergarten, Lessons and Ideas, media literacy, Professional Development, Resources, Secondary
Posted Newsflash – PD Webinar December 5
Our November 17 Newsflash is a heads-up about AML’s December 5th PD webinar: Unpacking Machine Learning. Click here to register now! For more information, see our flyer here.
By Carol Arcus
Posted ‘Exploring Infomercials and Creating Our Own’ by Samar Ismail
AML is pleased to publish here a fun new lesson from a recent AQ graduate, Samar Ismail! Samar imagined she would capitalize on her Grade 5/6 students’ enjoyment of infomercials – [...]
By Carol Arcus
Posted Processing Found Media Into Learning Experiences by Sarah Gilpin & Neil Andersen
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 [...]
By Carol Arcus
In Blog, Chelsea Attwell, Elementary, Essential Frameworks, Kindergarten, Lessons and Ideas, media literacy, Míchílín Ní Threasaigh, Neil Andersen, Professional Development, Resources, Secondary
Posted October 2024 Newsletter: Media Literacy Week!
Welcome to Media Literacy Week, AML-style. We like to stretch the boundaries of inquiry into media, asking “what IS media?” and “what is not?” Here, we offer creative ways [...]
