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Media Literacy and Serious Fun in the K-12 Classroom
How do our learners navigate and understand news on social media? How might dis-information impact their understanding of race relations? Of pandemic science? Of their own culture? This webinar will use a cross-curricular approach to focus on practical, stimulating, and critical thinking strategies for embedding media literacy frameworks into any curriculum. We will focus on …
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Media Literacy Week Celebration! The fun of teaching through and about Media Literacy
The week of October 25 – 29, 2021 is Canada’s Media Literacy Week! Come and celebrate with the Association for Media Literacy. Teaching media literacy is fun! This session will provide K-12 educators with practical strategies to embed media literacy into their programs. Participants will explore the concept of teaching through and about media literacy …
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Integrating media literacy into the secondary English classroom
Using a Grade 10 English narrative unit as an example, we’ll explore how teachers might use online tools to deliver a media-literacy-integrated approach to the English curriculum? Using students’ prior knowledge and Google apps, teachers can manage a narrative unit that helps students understand and appreciate story codes and conventions and the roles that stories play in their lives. …