Lessons and Ideas

This will be our last newsletter until September. We are thinking about AI, cell phone bans, and social media corporations’ responsibility for their technology and policy. Read our [...]

Ontario is one of several jurisdictions currently enacting smartphone bans in public schools. It might seem strange to see this legislation arise some 15 years after the smartphone became [...]

Through & About A December, 2023 meta-research paper from Sage, Do New Forms of Reading Pay Off? A Meta-Analysis on the Relationship Between Leisure Digital Reading Habits and Text [...]

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 [...]

AML is pleased to showcase this recent provocative article co-authored by AML Director Michilin Ni Threasaigh:  “Digital Affect Culture and the Logics of Melodrama: Online Polarization and [...]

This month’s newsletter features some very thoughtful blogs and articles from AML executive, as well as a wonderful set of activities from Irene Faiz, our Visual Arts teacher from Weston [...]

We have added a special on AI in education. Watch for more in the coming months! Click here for this newsletter!

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 [...]