Costume Etiquette, Costume Considerations
“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 [...]
“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 Neil Andersen, Carol Arcus, Margie Keats, Diana Maliszewski and Michelle Solomon How could victims need rescuing without villains to abuse them? How could a [...]
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 [...]
Association for Media Literacy
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Check it out! 🌟 @GoogleForEdu’s #BeInternetAwesome Media Literacy handbook 👏 NAMLE was a partner on the lesson plans, which address important topics from privacy to identifying false information and provide opportunities to learn #MediaLiteracy skills 🔗 http://goo.gle/3VUbzMp
Look ma, the Canadians are reading my book! 😁Thx to Chelsea Atwell & @A_M_L for the shout out Media Literacy for Young Children.
PRESS RELEASE: In response to @sflecce’s announced #OntEd cell phone & social media ban, AML is compelled to highlight the contradiction inherent in mandating #DigitalLiteracy education while simultaneously banning the tools necessary for effective implementation #OnPoli #EdChat
We’re excited about this #DigitalLiteracy camp for the littles being run by our VP in cooperation with @ontariotech_u University! Sign up now while there are still spots left.
Our latest newsletter shares @MzMollyTL’s upcoming @Leacock_Fdn panel discussion on #AI, @mediasee’s ongoing series on #MachineLearning, a review of @InsightersEd’s new book, @mzz_nee’s coauthored article on #SocialMedia as #Melodrama &more! Checkitout!