• Welcome to

      MediaSmarts: Learn

      Course description:

      Students can make media in every classroom! This course shows preservice and inservice teachers how media-making can be supported from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and helps them use it to assess student learning across the curriculum.


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    • Week 1: Creativity

      How do teachers and students think about creativity, and how does this affect how we approach it in the classroom? What can we do to foster creativity in our students and make them more confident in
      exploring it?

      Week 2: Technology

      How can we effectively use technology to make it easier for students to make media? How do we choose the most effective tool for having students make media? How can we deal with the challenges involved in using digital technology and take advantage of its opportunities?

      Week 3: Curriculum

      How can we find room in the crowded curriculum for making media? How can we use media-making to help students learn and demonstrate their learning of curriculum content?

      Week 4: Assessment

      How can you assess the learning students demonstrate when making media? How can we make sure our assessment of their media work is fair and accurate?

    • Course Lecturers


      Jessie Curell

      Jessie Curell

      Jessie is a Digital Media Literacy advocate and Founder of Hands on Media Education. She is dedicated to empowering educators, youth, teams, and nations with the skills to thrive in the digital world. With over 15 years of field experience building strategies and programs for students, educational institutions, and leaders, Jessie is a foremost Canadian expert.
      Brian Aspinall

      Brian Aspinall

      Brian is an educator and best-selling author, and considered one of the brightest STEAM innovators in education. His books Code Breaker, Block Breaker, Risk Taker and Think Like A Coder continue to top the charts in STEAM Education, inviting a rethink of assessment and evaluation.
      Kathleen Mercury

      Kathleen Mercury

      Kathleen has been teaching gifted middle school students for fourteen years, using design thinking to create functional art from tabletop game design, RPG design, filmmaking, cosplay, and more.
      Professor Jason Wiser

      Jason Wiser

      Professor Jason Wiser teaches Animation and Game Design at Harvard and Tufts Universities, and has taught master classes at Pixar Animation Studios. His Art and Animation have appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, on the Disney/ABC Family show "Greek," on robots at MIT, on award winning Tabletop and Digital Games, and as Comics in the Boston Globe. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Emerson College and a Bachelors of Art from Wesleyan University. See his kids media creations and online courses at www.YayaPlay.com
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