Archives

“Halloween is often an exciting time of year and also provides an opportunity to provide rich teaching and learning contexts that engage students in critical conversations that include [...]

Here are at least 50 ideas you can implement or tweak if you’re stuck for Halloween fun AND learning! We have drawn from our archives to highlight the “Haunted Media” project [...]

Chelsea Attwell is currently a Digital Lead Learner Hybrid teacher with the Toronto District School Board and a member of the board of directors for The Association of Media Literacy since 2013. [...]

by Neil Andersen and Diana Maliszewski This is the saga of a song. The melody and lyrics have remained intact, yet its long list of performers and audiences have profoundly changed its experience [...]

Three of the AML directors attended the NAMLE conference in Washington DC in June 2019. There were many media literacy learning opportunities. Assembled in the capital of the United States of [...]

by Neil Andersen. Emojis are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages. (Wikipedia) Their uses are growing rapidly, especially in texting, to graphically represent ideas and [...]

I have often used the theme of Super Heroes to teach media literacy with junior students. It is a great tool to get students to think critically about the world in which they live. It is also a [...]

by Neil Andersen, Diana Maliszewski and Nina Silver In an early episode of The Crown, a young Queen Elizabeth is frustrated because she feels that she is not being taken seriously, both for being [...]

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 [...]

Norman Lear produced several successful television sit-coms with political implications. His first, and most well-known, was All in the Family. Archie Bunker, the central character, was a [...]