Lessons and Ideas

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 [...]

Eggs – Not That Kind by Diana Maliszewski Today’s blog post has appeared on my personal blog (Monday Molly Musings) as well as the Association for Media Literacy website. I am [...]

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, [...]

Our April 2021 newsletter is now out! If you would like to receive our newsletter regularly (it is free!), contact us. Others archived here: (watch for changes…)

The Ontario Library Association’s annual OLA SuperConference, was held virtually February 3-6, 2021. The theme was “Clever Minds and Human Hearts”. AML Vice President Diana Maliszewski & [...]

This past August, two of our AML board members, Diana and Sarah, had the opportunity to present at the Beginning Teachers Conference. This year, the conference was held virtually via Zoom. [...]

TVO is Ontario’s publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization that serves the Canadian province of Ontario. They are continuing to offer free 24/7 access [...]

Ahead of his time?   by Irene Faiz This media literacy unit on COVID-19 masks was designed for a Grade 10 Secondary English class.  I plan to use many of these activities when I teach Visual [...]

The October 5 and 12 Mediacy episodes referenced transcribed versions of the debate recordings that might be useful for Secondary Media Literacy, English, Drama, Civics, Journalism and History. [...]

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 [...]