Michelle Solomon

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 [...]

Special thanks to Ms. Keats for co-authoring this post. For many across Canada and North America, we are in the midst of a major shift because of a pandemic known as the novel coronavirus, or [...]

A group of us from the AML attended Ron Deibert’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, on November 9. Deibert is the Director of The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at [...]

Using social media in our personal lives as well as the classroom February 14 is OSSTF PD DAY – Toronto Teachers If you are a secondary school teacher in the TDSB, there is still room for [...]

by Michelle Solomon and Neil Andersen (updated 2019) Because the primary function of media is to communicate culture, media literacy is a wonderfully compelling blend of media studies and [...]

Michelle Solomon is a Media Specialist currently teaching in the TDSB. She received her MA in English from McMaster University, where she worked as a TA for several years, focusing on English and [...]

by Michelle Solomon An observation—and major complication—that I have not heard elsewhere involves the multijurisdictional contexts of media causes and effects. Specifically, that the media [...]

by Neil Andersen, Carol Arcus, Margie Keats, Diana Maliszewski and Michelle Solomon     How could victims need rescuing without villains to abuse them? How could a hero demonstrate [...]

by  M. Keats & M. Solomon  Our February 5, 2018 #K12Media chat focused on representation. We focused primarily on the Media Studies definition of representation and included recent examples [...]

Blog post by Laurie Townshend with extension activities by Michelle Solomon The U.S. Civil Rights Movement reached a peak in the 1960’s with widespread reactions to systemic racism boiling over [...]