Neil Andersen

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 [...]

21st Century reading must include more than words; graphics and animations carry significant meanings in our mediated lives. This video models the range of digital reading skills that anyone [...]

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work – A review by AML President Neil Andersen I am a long-time comedy enthusiast. How long? I bought and shared Tom [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the key attributes of AI is that it appears to think and respond, often using information it has gleaned from us directly, but also indirectly from our online behaviours. Whether this is a [...]

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 [...]