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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 [...]

Neil Andersen presented Media Literacy and The BFG at Reading for the Love It, Toronto, February 24, 2017. The slides are here: BFG

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 [...]

by Diana Luciani, former AML Board Member and Teacher, Peel DSB, Ontario As part of the Grade 11 Parenting Class, this is an examination of the representation of family—particularly fathers as [...]

  This text-of-the-month is a pair of texts. One is a direct response to the other. Both are interesting.

It seems that more than ever, we need the resources of global education and the insights of media literacy to help our young people gain the knowledge and develop the values, attitudes and skills [...]

My father had to complete grade 11 by correspondence because his teacher had completed only grade 10. While his mother was keenly interested in and supportive of her children's education, she [...]

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.