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“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 [...]

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 [...]

image: cbc.ca   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 [...]

by Diana Luciani, former AML Board Member This 5-day lesson plan incorporates media into the Learning Strategies/Skills for Success Ontario course, and in doing, helps students examine and make [...]

* A viral video has circulated showing a young nun singing an Alicia Keys song on Italy’s The Voice. It makes for a wonderful discussion topic. The facial/body reactions of the 4 judges to [...]

  Get Happy. Buy a Volkswagen. The 2013 Volkswagen Superbowl ad asks us to “Get In and Get Happy.” I couldn’t resist a smile when watching this, but couldn’t resist a [...]

Children watch television and are presented with many different kinds of images and representation surrounding class, gender and power. Many of these images go by without thought or discussion. [...]

For every fairy tale or story told, there exists another version of that same story when told through another's point of view or in a new context.