Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus

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.

  1. May 27

    The end of the world as we know it: Part 1

    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?

    1h 4m

  2. Feb 11

    GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale

    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?

    47 min

  3. 10/26/2025

    Happy Media Literacy Week 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!)

    39 min

  4. 10/24/2025

    Teacher/Librarians are key Media Literacy advocates & experts

    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.

    30 min

  5. 11/23/2024

    Early Childhood Media Literacy Education (part 2) ft. Dr. Faith Rogow

    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.

    38 min

  6. 10/25/2023

    Media Literacy and the Revised Ontario Language Curriculum

    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 Attwell Míchílín Ní Threasaigh

    39 min

  7. 05/26/2023

    Media Literacy in the Early Years

    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 conversation!

    46 min

  8. 02/24/2023

    GenerativeAI in Education

    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?

    49 min
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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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