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March 23, 2009
Skills for Surviving the 21st Century

In the recent issue of Forum magazine, Ontario's OSSTF magazine, Barry Duncan and Carol Arcus explore all the good reasons that media literacy be fully integrated into classrooms at all grade levels, particularly in this age of converging communications media. A rebuttal to a recent article suggesting that media studies be dropped from Language and English studies in Ontario, this piece draws from the expertise of many respected researchers and educators.

 Read the article at:  http://www.osstf.on.ca/educationforum
 

March 6, 2007
Media Violence and OSSTF: A Response

 

March 6, 2007
The Political History of AML Part 3

You have read The Political History of AML, Part 1 and Part 2 by Derek Boles. Here is Part Three (of three parts) of this fascinating, exhaustive study that chronicles major events to the year 2000.

November 3, 2006
The Political History of the AML, Part 2

You read The Political History of AML Ontario, Part 1, by Derek Boles when our site debuted. Here is Part Two (of three parts) of his comprehensive study, documenting the political history of AML Ontario in its long and arduous struggle to entrench media studies in mainstream curriculum.  This article was written in 2000.

November 1, 2006
A Framework for Teaching Comics and Graphic Novels: Seek Out Those in the Know!

Ian Esquivel takes us on another tour of an alternative landscape: this time, Comics and Graphic Novels. Here, he interviews the Library Services Coordinator for The Beguiling comic book shop. Look for his lesson/unit plan soon.

January 2006
In A Galaxy Not So Far Away

As the AML launches its new website, Ian Esquivel can’t help but think about what really keeps us connected: AML co-founder and Jedi master, Barry Duncan.

December 2005
Transforming The Corporate Kingdom

Disney is a media educator's dream topic, a vast site of struggle and pleasure where communication theory and practice conjoin, the past and present converge, the local and the global overlap, and commerce and culture intertwine.

November 2, 2005
AML PANEL ON YOUTH MARKETING: Transcript of event

Included here is the transcription Carly Stasko and Trevor Norris worked on from the event "The Product is Youth:  Teen marketing and the Selling of Tomorrow" held at the NFB and hosted by the AML in  Nov 2005. It is an invaluable document insofar as it reveals many of the central pressupositions and justifications behind marketing to teens, and will be useful to scholars working on this topic.

November 2005
ESL Students - Opportunities for Media Education

Teaching about the media includes addressing the key media concepts of audience, production, codes and conventions and values and ideology.

October 2005
The International Association of Business Communication (IABC Canada) Conference held in Halifax, Oct 16-18, 2005

This was the first conference in which I had presented in which the primary audience was made up of media professionals, not educators. It was a revealing, refreshing experience.

2005
Some Notes on Voice/Audience

Voice is more than the vocal tones used to communicate. It includes the impression made by the speaker, the relationship established between the speaker and listener, and much more.

2005
Does Media Education Work?

A respected colleague asked me to be one of the people to answer the question, “Does Media Education Work?” Here is a slightly revised version of the answer I sent.

October 1, 2004
China and Media Education: Cautious Optimism

China, the sleeping giant so much in the news, is finally opening its door to media education.

February 1, 2004
Beware the Anti-Media Literacy Lobbyists

Chris Worsnop takes on the formidable Fraser Institute, which claims that media literacy “all too often descends into anti-corporate muckraking." Readers of this article are encouraged to thoughtfully examine both sides of the argument.

September 1, 2002
Media Education in Canada

This is a comprehensive overview of the history of media education in Canada, including the particular ways that Canadian educators have forged curriculum through the lens of Canadian identity vis a vis our southern neighbour. Also included are resources, and a list of factors which predict successful programmes.

April 1, 2001
The Political History of AML Ontario, Part 1

Part One of the political history of AML Ontario in its long and arduous struggle to entrench media studies in mainstream curriculum. 

November 1, 2000
An Overview of a Recent Conversation with Len Masterman

Len Masterman’s most recent work has focused on developing the new Media Studies syllabus for the Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (England). 

May 1998
Global Interculturalism and the Dilemmas of Universalism

An edited and abridged version of Robert Ferguson's address to the International Congress on Communication and Education in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 16-23, 1998.

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