Lessons and Ideas

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. [...]

AML offered exciting media literacy lessons, ideas, and tips (below) for newly hired educators at the Beginning Teachers Conference (Toronto DSB), August 20, at the Montecassino Event Centre. [...]

Here is a simple yet effective way to identify and break down gender stereotypes. It can be modified to work in any classroom. Sarah Bayne uses a relatable medium such as a T-shirt to [...]

This excursion doesn’t take any permission forms or money to run. It’s a field trip to your school’s parking lot! This lesson can be led early in the school year, and can be [...]

Li’l Nas X’s Old Town Road holds the record for most weeks on the Billboard chart. Children know the song, can sing it and dance to it. It has morphed into music videos, gathering [...]

Chelsea Attwell presented her innovative curriculum Community As Inquiry (below), at the NAMLE Pre-Conference in June in Washington (“Media Literacy Starts Young: Strategies for Media [...]

This infographic provides convincing evidence why media literacy is the single most important skill to understand and succeed in our current mediated environments. As you explore it, ask [...]

The principal of Earl Grey Senior Public School has, at the urging of parents, banned the use of phones in class. They may be used during lunch, but “no social media, no texting, no taking or [...]

Elections are great opportunities for students to examine a particular media text that often accompanies these events – the election sign. Diana Maliszewski suggests that these questions [...]

Many students’ smartphone home screens are a random collection of app icons while others are carefully curated and organized. How might teachers use these variations for a fun, practical [...]