Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

About 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.

Publisher

Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus

Category

education · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Feb 2019

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

103 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Meeting GenAI Challenges with Míchílín Ní Threasaigh part 2

   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.

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Meeting GenAI Challenges with Míchílín Ní Threasaigh part 1

   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?

3. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI with Sr. Rose Pacatte

   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.