Mediacs media literacy workshops are highly interactive, high-energy discussions specifically designed for elementary, middle and secondary school school students. These are turn-key, in-class sessions complete with follow-up exercises and a note that’s ready to go home to parents helping them understand the workshop content and their importance as media gatekeepers.

The sessions address many of the grade-level expectations of the Language based media literacy curriculum and depending on the workshop, overlap with health, drama, physical education and arts based curricula. The workshops include many hands-on activities that connect the curriculum to the real world. In fact, much of what is discussed goes beyond the curriculum expectations to explore media related social issues such as body image and self esteem.

The focus of the workshops is largely on marketing and advertising because of its overwhelming influence on children’s lives and because this is often where these social issues are played out.

You Got Schooled!

Is your school incorporating media literacy into language arts, health, social studies, science, math, geography, phys-ed, art, guidance, civics, business etc, etc, etc? Mediacs workshops turn students into passionate learners, gently and strategically cross-referencing many of these subject areas. The discussions generated in our workshops energize students and inspire them to learn. Many teachers comment Mediacs workshops and media studies turn disengaged, level 1 thinkers into level 4 performers.

Love it or hate it, our media culture is the source of enormous pleasure for many kids and applying critical thinking skills to it’s messages triggers levels of reasoning and reflection that embody the very goals of education.

Some of the schools Mediacs has visited
(in no particular order!):

• Credit Valley Montessori • Harrison Public School • St Raymond Catholic School • Pace–Academy for Gifted Children • Highview Public School • Humberside Collegiate • Indian Road Public School • Kingsway College School • Lincoln Middle School • Alexandra Public School • Lucy Maud Montgomery Public School • Hillcrest Public School • Springdale Public School • Metro School for the Deaf • Mount Hope Public School • Newmarket High School • Westminister Public School • Norway Public School • Frankland Public School • Jackman Public School • Claremont Public School • Cottingham Public School • Sir Ernest McMillan Public School • Spectrum Alternative School • Willowbrook Public School • Thorncliffe Public School • Laidlaw Public School • John Wanless Public School • Lorne Park Collegiate • Pinegrove Public School • Valley Garden Public School • Whitney Public School • Brock Public School • Westway Public School • Quest Alternative School • High Park Alternative School • McMaster University • York University • Sole Alternative School • Glenneagles Public School • Palmerston Public School • Walter Scott Public School • Kane Public School • Parkside Public School • Puce Public School • Quesnel Public School • Reesor Park Public School • Franklin Public School • River Oaks Public School • Sam Sherrat Public School • Edenwood Public School • St Augustine Catholic High School

• St Christopher House • St John Bosco Catholic School • Applewood Heights Public School • Summit Heights Public School • Sunningdale Public School • The Waterfront School • Williamson Road Public School • Woodbine Public School • Adam Beck Public School • Alexander Graham Bell Public School • St John’s Ravenscourt • Turner Fenton Secondary School • Armour Heights Public School • Attersley Public School • Aurora Grove Public School • Bedford Park Public School • King City Secondary School • Birchcliffe Public School • Bloor Park Collegiate • Branksome Hall • Fairbanks Middle School • Plattsville Public School • Chisolm Public School • Cliffwood Public School • Corvette Public School • Courcelette Public School • Cummer Valley Public School • D. A. Morrison Public School • Northern Peel Public School • Denlow Public School • Diefenbaker Public School • Earl Grey Public School • Downtown Montessori • Elizabeth Ziegler Public School • 5 Elements • Essex Public School • Cosburn Middle School • Davisville Public School • Daycare Connections • Deer Park Public School • Don Mills Public School • Dunblaine Public School • Fairwood Public School • Falgarwood Public School • Chief Dan George Public School • Lambton Kingsway Public School • St John’s Catholic School • Parkside Public School • Pinelands Public School • Samuel Steeles Public School • Twentieth Street Public School

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