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Supports for Media Teachers

Students need critical perspectives on trends and issues such as:

• Industries shape our identities as consumers, and teach us that we are what we wear, drive, listen to, and own
• Popular Culture promotes and models images of sexual awareness and behaviour for increasingly younger audiences
• Corporations sign partnership contracts with school boards and extend commercialism to captive audiences of students
• New and converging technologies blur the traditional distinctions between television, movies, recorded music and the Internet
• Schools rush to provide Internet access for their students, convinced that skills and knowledge will be greatly improved
• Minority students in an increasingly multicultural society cannot see themselves represented in the media
• Canadian identity is threatened by a rising tide of American media products
• Concentration of ownership provides more media but fewer viewpoints

Include an AML leader in your locally-organized:

• Summer Institute
• Mini-conference
• PD Day
• AQ course

Include an AML leader as a consultant in your board's curriculum development, implementation and assessment teams.

Book a workshop on a specific topic, such as:

• Getting started in media education
• New media technologies
• Violence in the media
• Gender representation
• Globalization
• Supporting language and literature studies through media studies