Lessons and Ideas

We are offering the Part 1, 2, 3 Spring AQ March 20 to May 22 2025! If you are interested, please email us ASAP. For more information, click here. Registration will be available at the end of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

*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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]