Essential Frameworks

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 [...]

This graphic presents questions that mobilize the items on the Media Literacy Triangle. Do NOT engage all the questions at any one time. Select one or two at most from each side in any given [...]

The Social Media Triangle was designed for the OTF/OADE Social Media and Teacher Learning Conference, February, 2012. It is an amalgam of the Media Literacy Triangle and Critical Literacy [...]

  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 [...]

These Audience-related questions are designed to help you assess the news story from different audiences’ points of view. Do not use them all, but choose as many as will help you assess [...]

These Production-related questions are designed to help you assess the producers and distributors of the news story. Do not use them all, but choose as many as will help you assess your chosen [...]

These text-related questions are designed to help you interrogate the codes and conventions of the news. Do not use them all, but choose as many as will help you assess your chosen news report. [...]