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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 [...]
“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 [...]
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We’re pleased to share a gr. 11 Arts unit from Director Irene Faiz as an example of how #KeyConcepts of #MediaLiteracy such as “Media construct versions of reality” & “Media contain values messages” can be seamlessly woven into other subject curricula.
“[Media literacy] can also help [students] develop skills and perspective that may help them… to live with a little more tolerance, understanding, and confidence and a lot more skepticism, scrutiny, and sophistication.” Continue in @EdWeekOpinion 🔗
🚨 It’s been a chaotic, emotionally charged news week. Trying to find credible reports in such an environment can be hard – especially on social media!
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In today’s featured blog, President @mediasee highlights evolving real-world applications of #MachineLearning & considers potential benefits & hazards of #GenAI, from enhancing social connections to ethical concerns, in true #McLuhanian style.
Co-VP @MzMollyTL just returned from presenting & participating in @IC4ML #IMLRS24 in the Azores. Check out her reflection on this year’s iteration of one of our favourite #MediaLiteracy conferences on our blog: