Kindergarten

This idea is an extension/remix of an existing concept I saw several years ago. A frequent traveler had created books for tourists to help them get essential services when they could not speak [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Many parents make a particular point of exposing their children to books at an early age and continue to promote a love of reading throughout their childhoods. As popular as tablets and [...]

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, [...]

Congratulations to AML Director Chelsea Attwell on the publication of her innovative media literacy research in the Journal of Sustainability Education (May 4, 2020). This article outlines [...]

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 [...]

By Chelsea Attwell and Diana Maliszewski It’s almost the end of 2018 – that means it’s time to release a list! We have 40 Ideas for Incorporating Media Literacy into a Kindergarten Program. [...]

by Neil Andersen and Chelsea Attwell. It is useful and fun to think about media in broader terms than books, websites or news. The environment that our students learn in provides rich learning [...]

Here are Chelsea Attwell’s slides from her lesson design lecture for the OTF Summer Institute. Lesson Design Community Walk