Press Play
On Saturday, September 26, 2009, the US network Nickelodeon did something unusual: it switched itself off. This was in observance of the "Worldwide Day of Play," an event Nickelodeon inaugurated in...
View ArticleInterview with Larry Gonick, author of The Cartoon History of the Modern...
Larry Gonick is a pioneer of non-fiction cartooning; starting with Blood From A Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform in 1971, he has made a career out of explaining complicated topics in comic format....
View ArticleHistory's Mirror: Media education and the teaching of history
On November 5, 2009, MNet Media Education Specialist Matthew Johnson participated in the Association of Canadian Studies' conference Knowing Ourselves: The Challenge of Teaching History of Canadian...
View ArticleReview: New Media Education Resources
This collection of articles on media education around the world will fulfill an important need: informing us of the struggle to critically understand the global implications of media education.read more
View ArticleAlien versus predator
When Marlene Kane's sixteen-year-old son Andrew asked her to drive him to the nearby town of Midland last December, she was surprised to hear that he wanted to meet with someone he had met while...
View ArticleShades of Grey: Rethinking cyberbullying interventions
Just a short while ago, concern with online predators was so dominant that anyone trying to draw attention to the problem of cyberbullying felt like a voice in the wilderness. In the last few years,...
View ArticleFrom Passport to MyWorld: Media Awareness Network extends digital literacy...
Someone encountering the Internet for the first time might be forgiven for assuming it was created specifically for teenagers. Indeed, the Internet could reasonably be said to have been aging backwards...
View ArticleA Revolution of Text: Building a Bridge With New Media
I was recently asked by Jane Tallim to write a guest blog and seriously wondered what suggestions I could offer that would appeal to high school English and Media Studies teachers. We all know that...
View ArticleChanging the World, Online and Off
The classic 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game is one of several books of that period that foresaw both the advent of the Internet and its eventual importance in society. While certain aspects of...
View ArticleTeaching the Net Generation: Teachers' Perspectives in Young Canadians in a...
In the early months of 2011, the eyes of the world were on the Middle East, watching as the governments of Egypt, Tunisia and other autocratic regimes buckled under the pressure of democratic protest....
View ArticleLiteracy, Digital Literacy or Media Literacy?
Emerging ideas and trends in the space of new literacies are indeed fluid and, through discussion, seem to always be in a state of constant flux. As teachers and learners engage with online content and...
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