Representation Lessons for Writing Students
by Irene Faiz OCT These lessons were created for my grade 12 Ontario Literacy Course (OLC) English classes during a block of 11 weeks of remote learning at a west-end Toronto high school. This [...]
by Irene Faiz OCT These lessons were created for my grade 12 Ontario Literacy Course (OLC) English classes during a block of 11 weeks of remote learning at a west-end Toronto high school. This [...]
Using a Grade 10 English narrative unit as an example, Neil Andersen explores how teachers might use online tools to deliver a media-literacy-integrated approach to the English curriculum. [...]
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 [...]
What a fantastic end to a rough week. I had the opportunity to attend EdCamp Hamilton, coming off the back end of several heated discussions around the organization and attendance of a focus [...]
Dove’s new ad campaign embeds the value of recognizing and appreciating one’s own natural beauty, and may be successful for those who are feeling insecure in the looks [...]
Justin Trudeau’s early days in Parliament as the new Leader of the Liberal Party were accompanied by Conservative Party attack ads. Attack ads criticize personal attributes of their [...]
The Role of Media in 21st Century Public Life The April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon and the subsequent events have provided a fascinating opportunity to explore how the digital media [...]
. A week after the death of Margaret Thatcher, Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead, a song from The Wizard of Oz, had risen to the top of the pops in England as a measure of many Britons’ responses to [...]
Anti-Americanism? Anti-consumerism? Anti-fast-food? I imagine that you have one or two friends who regularly send you emails or links to unusual, funny, quirky, distracting information. I do, [...]
Jane Mitchinson-Schwartz . . A group of grade 11 girls were showing the music video they had just finished producing for my Communications Technology class, when it occurred to me how [...]
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Wonderful examples of culturally-appropriate messages.
What others might you imagine?
Media construct versions of reality.
@A_M_L_ #medialiteracy https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-05/Kangaroos-trout-and-hockey-sticks-to-help-with-social-distancing-Qfm75LkwBq/index.html
What inferences might we make from learning that telcos are the largest donors?
Media contain commercial meanings.
Media contain social and political meanings.
@A_M_L_ #medialiteracy https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/corporate-donations-suspended-u-s-republicans-1.5873268
How might we respond if the riot is given a human face?
Media construct versions of reality.
Audiences negotiate meaning.
@A_M_L_ #medialiteracy https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/police-officers-capitol-riot-hodges-fanone/index.html
Could the GPS and login data be cross-referenced to the locations and chatter that occurred over the previous week?
Media construct versions of reality.
@A_M_L_ #medialiteracy https://twitter.com/MediatedReality/status/1350095519222153218
The more I see these stories, I believe these are the same people who worry that tech ruins kids, so they film themselves destroying an iPad (while kids cry in the background) using either a hammer or shotgun, then post to Facebook about good parenting 🤷🏻♂️ https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/14/22231749/parler-interactive-map-video-gps-capitol-attack
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