Media Literacy is the most important skill. Teaching #medialiteracy is fun and rewarding! Learn to integrate critical thinking about literature, pop culture, social and informational media, and digital technologies into Secondary English and Grades K-8 cross-curricula. Explore how production (image, video, audio, GSuite) can enhance and support reading, writing, speaking, …
The Toronto District School Board is offering Media Studies Part 1 from late August to early December, 2017. Learn to integrate critical thinking about pop culture, social and informational media, and digital technologies into Secondary English and Grades K-8 cross-curricula. Explore how production (image, video, audio, GAFE) can enhance and …
Join us in Toronto this Saturday for our 4th Annual Barry’s Wander! Together we will “Read the Street”. This year, we have a special focus, reading the streets of Toronto through an Aboriginal lens. We have paired up with First Story Toronto to bring you a truly unique experience. Where: The steps …
Register for the upcoming Reading the Pictures Salon The Great Exodus: A Look at How the Migrant Crisis is Being Pictured in the Media A migrant carrying a baby is stopped by Hungarian police officers as he tries to escape on a field nearby a collection point in the village …
CALL FOR PAPERS Bridging Gaps: What are the media, and publicists, and celebrities selling? Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal Barcelona, Spain July 3rd – 5th, 2016 Public personalities hold the power to draw attention to products, services, and charities through their endorsement. Celebrity activists, for example, can …
“Is not the essence of education civil defense against media fallout? (Marshall McLuhan The Gutenberg Galaxy, p. 294).” The mLab (Toronto Media Lab) associated with Children’s Own Media Museum and the St. Michael’s College Science Association together with the following organizations: the McLuhan Legacy Network, the Marshall McLuhan Centre for …
Please join us September 27!
Three years ago, pills the NFB closed their doors to the public. The consolation for educators was that they would be able to use that savings to preserve their workshops (both at the NFB offices and the travelling workshop program). Students and teachers would continue to visit the NFB and …
It is with regret that we have cancelled this conference. Our apologies, no rx but both our presenters and attendees are collective agreement participants and would not cross picket lines. We hope to mount another conference next year under more favorable conditions.