Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

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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September 24, 2026 • 52 mins
This is the second half of Neil Andersen's conversation with Míchílín Ní 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.
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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?
Míchílín Ní Threasaigh teaches in a virtual high school where everyone is online. What has she learned and how might her experiences help us?
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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.
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July 8, 2026 • 39 mins
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.
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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.
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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?
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February 11, 2026 • 46 mins
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?...
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October 26, 2025 • 38 mins
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...
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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.
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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.
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On this special episode of Mediacy, the Association for Media Literacy celebrates Media Literacy week 2023! On this episode of Mediacy we will chat with expert educators and media literacy enthusiasts who are going to share helpful insights and strategies for talking about media literacy in the Revised Ontario Language Curriculum. Thanks for listening!

Participants:

Diana Maliszewski
Neil Andersen
Chelsea Attwe...
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May 26, 2023 • 46 mins
In this episode of Mediacy, we are talking about media literacy in the early years with Dr. Faith Rogow. Dr. Rogow is an independent scholar who has been a media literacy educator, innovator, and strategist since the 1980s. On today's show, we are talking with Dr. Rogow about her groundbreaking book Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates. Listen in for an engaging, insightful, and fun conversatio...
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February 23, 2023 • 49 mins
Heidi Siwak and Margie Keats bring their classroom experiences with GenerativeAI Apps to Mediacy. What are the challenges? How might teachers meet those challenges? How might GenerativeAI support learning?
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A panel of directors in the Association for Media Literacy will gather to chat about media topics of particular interest, what media approaches are somewhat misguided (hint: it's not all about "fake news"), and current events through a media literacy lens.

On the panel:

Neil Andersen
Diana Maliszewski
Michelle Solomon
Margie Keats

Visit the Association for Media Literacy at https://aml.ca
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UK Professor Julian McDougall talks with Neil and Carol about building media literacy education at the intersection of social justice, cultural studies, and digital competency.
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Neil and Carol talk to Toronto entrepreneur Sue Sutcliffe about the online marketing biz, including the newest digital conference site, World Event Centre.
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Michael Dezuanni, QUT Professor and author of Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms: Learning with Minecraft Let's Play Videos, talks to Neil and Carol about children’s non-hierarchical learning through youtube and Minecraft. They learn that it’s more than just a game.
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Join Neil and Carol as they explore the benefits and challenges of “making” with David Gauntlett, the author of Making is Connecting.
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Neil and Carol learn from Nina Silver the ins and outs of the online art business, and why art is still art no matter the sales system.
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UCLA’s Jeff Share and Doug Kellner help Neil and Carol understand why Critical Media Literacy is the gold standard in media literacy learning.
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