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Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, we...
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Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, we guarantee that you won't leave an episode thinking quite the same way as you did when you arrived.
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24 SEP 2026 · This is the second half of Neil Andersen's conversation with MÃchÃlÃn Nà Threasaigh.
It begins with a most valuable description of the anxieties plaguing students and proceeds to consider what pedagogies and policies might be useful in helping them to understand and appreciate GenAI.
6 SEP 2026 · Our students are suffering in a Generative AI Wilderness. Female students are accessing toxic boyfriend chatbots; writing students are frustrated by sycophantic and coded feedback. What might teachers do to help their students understand and benefit from GenAI affordances?
MÃchÃlÃn NÃ Threasaigh teaches in a virtual high school where everyone is online. What has she learned and how might her experiences help us?
31 AUG 2026 · Pope Leo dropped Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical addressing the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, on a significant anniversary. Sister Rose Pacatte, a Catholic media literacy educator, joins Carol Arcus, Chelsea Attwell and Neil Andersen from Rome to discuss and highlight the encyclical's messages and meanings for parents and teachers.
9 JUL 2026 · Chelsea Attwell, Diana Maliszewski and Carol Arcus reflect on the values of presenting at and attending international conferences. They offer tips for both attendees and presenters.
28 JUN 2026 · The second half of Neil's conversation with Tim King.
Tim reflects on the rich experiences he has enjoyed in his IT secondments.
He also explains his misgivings about new GenAI and digital innovations.
Neil endeavours to find pedagogical opporunities in the new media landscape.
27 MAY 2026 · Tim King and Neil Andersen discuss the challenges arising from evolving communications technologies in the mid-2020s; including digital security, GenAI, and quantum computing.
How might teachers help their students understand, appreciate and benefit from the recent innovations?
11 FEB 2026 · You are teaching an asynchronous online course.
One of thousands such courses.
You discover that one student has engaged a GenAI agent imposter to take the course in their place. The GenAI imposter reads and responds to the course readings; it takes the quizzes; it completes and submits the culminating project.
Algorithmically, without any participation from the student.
What might this mean for the student? ...for you? ...for your institution?
26 OCT 2025 · The start of the school year is always exciting. It's also a great time to begin media literacy education because there are so many opportunities. Veteran media literacy educators join host Carol Arcus to describe and discuss their first media literacy lessons of the school year. Listeners will gain great and simple teaching ideas for their own media literacy education.
Happy Media Literacy Week!
(At The Association for Media Literacy, EVERY week is Media Literacy Week!)
24 OCT 2025 · Chelsea Attwell engages 3 teacher-librarians in a rich conversation exploring ways that they integrate and teach media literacy skills in their schools. Listeners will gain great insights into media literacy theory and how it might be applied to concrete learning.
23 NOV 2024 · Early Years Media Literacy Education may at first seem challenging but is entirely doable.
Two expert early years educators discuss how, based on a very useful guide.
Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, we...
show more
Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, we guarantee that you won't leave an episode thinking quite the same way as you did when you arrived.
show less
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| Author | voicEd Radio |
| Organization | voicEd Radio Canada |
| Categories | Education , News , Philosophy |
| Website | www.spreaker.com |
| neil.andersen@aml.ca |
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