Media Education in Canada: An Overview
1960 Media education in Canadian schools can be traced back to secondary "screen education" courses that were offered in the late 1960s.
1979 The Association for Media Literacy (Ontario) formed in Toronto.
1980 Ontario was the first Canadian province to introduce media education into the curriculum in 1987.
1980 National Film Board, Pacific Region, works with a group of Lower Mainland teachers on film literacy program. Blinkity Blank, a magazine for teachers about teaching film appreciation and production, published for several years by the Pacific Region of the NFB.
1984 The Jesuit Communication Project founded in Toronto.
1990 BC Association for Media Education (formerly Canadian Association for Media Education) formed in Vancouver.
1994 BCAME contracts with the BC Ministry of Education to develop a Conceptual Framework for Media Education that was intended to guide the curriculum revisions that were to take place over the next two years.
1994 Pacific Cinematheque hires an Education Director to develop a film and media literacy program.
1995 First media literacy training institute held in the Surrey School District, BC.
1995 Ministers of Education from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon and Northwest Territories joined forces as the Western Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Basic Education (WCP) to develop common curriculum frameworks for Kindergarten to Grade 12 that included media literacy for the first time.
1996 BCAME invited to write specific learning outcomes dealing with media literacy for the newly revised BC English Language Arts curriculum.
2000 Summit 2000, a major international media literacy conference, held in Toronto.
2001 The Canadian Association of Media Education Organization (CAMEO) formerly established and registered.
2001-2005 Annual media literacy summer institutes held at the BC Teachers' Federation offices in Vancouver
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