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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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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

A sculpture of a man sleep walking in his underwear has disrupted life at a women’s university. The sculpture provides great opportunities to consider context and to explore the key [...]

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 [...]