Essential Frameworks

This was a very politicized gathering of people who are working hard to be woke. The conference theme derived from the work of Media Ecology Professor Antonio Lopez, who has been a long-time [...]

Media Education Summit, Vancouver March 2-4 2023 Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus presented ideas regarding pedagogies of empathy, and how these might help us understand “the fraught [...]

Check out our Fall Media AQ, a new Interview, and an invitation to re-visit our Lesson ideas.. Click here for our September newsletter.  

by Neil Andersen Note: These two images, representing “about” and “through” come from the icon collection from The Noun Project. We are permitted to use these images under [...]

AML is proud to present our Best of the Best: 28 Lessons and Ideas for Teaching Through and About Media at Secondary Level We are including 10 lesson/units for Black History Month 2022. Click [...]

February 18th PD Workshop heads-up! We also feature a rich list of Secondary resources, and news about our AQ course! Click here for our February newsletter.

Chelsea Attwell, Vice President of the Association for Media Literacy, shares her 2021 NAMLE presentation, Exploring Virtual Learning Environments to Support Student Agency in the Early Years. [...]

Building Agency through Play-Based Collaborative Learning: A Primary Students’ Community-Environment-as-Media Inquiry A presentation by AML’s Vice President Chelsea Attwell and Carol Arcus, [...]

Curio.ca by Michelle Solomon and Carol Arcus These resource materials are the beginning of an ongoing bank of resources that will allow teachers to build an effective anti-racial curriculum [...]

A perspective by Sarah Bayne, an Ontario elementary educator and board member with the AML. October was a stressful month for many of us. Between students, teachers, and families navigating the [...]