Risk Taking
After we viewed the documentary,Т Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Laptop.Т The film featured three women bloggers Т in Cuba, China and Iran who write about social injustice in […]
A Musing on the Museum
This, from Neil Postman’s The End of Education, might make for an interesting discussion, activity, or research assignment. (Postman’s language is quoted; mine is italicized.) “I recommend a subject that, […]
“When it comes to free speech, journalists should be activists”
Dan Gillmor writes an interesting piece on issues pertaining to Forbidden Voices in an article you can find here:Т https://medium.com/backchannel/when-journalists-must-not-be-objective-fad5aadd8cb3 He starts by discussing how The New York Times recently took […]
Human Rights and Free Speech: Integrating ‘Forbidden Voices’
Human Rights and Free Speech: Relating your Curriculum to Forbidden Voices Many of you are doing great work integrating the PAGES media arts experience, the documentary film ‘Forbidden Voices’.Т Listed below […]
Media Arts Experience: Meet Our Panel
Meet our panel of for tomorrow’s program. Anisa GandevivalaТ “Anisa is a physician turned manager, turned consultant, turned writer, poet, artist, connector and educator living in Columbus, Ohio. She […]
On Risk-Taking
Т Т Т Educators who take risks in their classrooms stand a better chance of engaging students than those who stick to the textbook or a pre-packed curriculum. Educator risk taking […]
Is Offense the New Threat to Free Speech?
The article “No Offense: The New Threats to Free Speech” isТ from John O’Sullivan at The Wall Street Journal. See:Т http://m.wsj.com/articles/no-offense-the-new-threats-to-free-speech-1414783663?mobile=yТ O’Sullivan writes the following curious points in quotation marks. I occasionally […]
Ask, Think, Then Ask Some More
Sorry, I wrote this post earlier this afternoon and thought I posted it! Here is the NPR piece we talked about in today’s roundtable. Good work today.Т Past PAGES teachers […]
“Extended Looking” – Close Observation of a Text
In our recent classroom visits, we talked about how art can document history, place, the evolution of culture or community. New York City, as with many US cities, is in […]
First Amendment Cases: From the Courtroom to the Classroom
As a Government teacher, I am in the midst of teaching the Freedom of Speech aspect of the First Amendment. I have a number of courts cases that might be […]
Curious Conferences and Study Time Gone Rabid
Т Т Where I teach–a community school in Columbus, OH–we have a curious way of conducting conferences. The student and their parent / guardian(s) go to a classroom at a […]
What will your art do?
What will your art do? Below are a variety of artists creating art as a catalyst for social change. TheirТ work reflects contemporary social justice issues, coming from a place of […]
Need Ideas, We’ve Got ‘Em
50 Ways to Teach With Current Events is a mega idea list compiled by the New York Times to engage students in literacy and writing using current events. The news […]
A Teacher’s Guide to Blog Posts
In the blogging world, it is hard to determine what your online audience wants. Here is a great article that outlines the appropriate length of a blog post based […]
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 