Category: Media Literacy

POV

The most compelling element of Anthropocene was its use of point of view. The extreme close-ups of intricate, organic designs that we realize are images of destruction as we zoom […]

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Making metaphor from scratch

Mary Reufle begins at the beginnings. She offers “Metaphor as time, the time it takes for an exchange of energy to occur … if metaphor is not idle comparison, but […]

Students Answer Life’s Messy Questions Together

We don’t always have the answers to life’s messy questions. Т Through the PAGES program, English I students had the opportunity to experienceТ Girlhood and consider how one teenage girl attempts to […]

In the Classroom: Seven Ways Into The Media Arts Experience

We will screen Girlhood, a film by Céline Sciamma, in a matter of days, and we are busy in the classroom engaging with this upcoming experience in myriad ways. When […]

A Take On Speaking and Listening

ELA teachers sometimes gloss over the CCSS’s Speaking and Listening standards. Based on conversations with friends who employ 18-25 year-olds, this is evident in some graduates’ job performance. Our task […]

Girlhood Cont.

There’s never enough time, and who knows that better than educators. So in an effort to offer up a few larger themes to think about and potential pathways, here is […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah on Hunger Strike

Egpytian blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah was sentenced to fifteen years in prison this June for “for spurious accusations made in connection with his longstanding and influential activism.” I’ve been […]

Russia begins “registering” bloggers. Ethiopian bloggers arrested.

1) The registration of Russian bloggers has begun:Т http://gigaom.com/2014/08/01/the-registration-of-russian-bloggers-has-begun/ “Vladimir Putin recently signed amendments to Russian communications law that created this registry, in order to place prominent bloggers under the same […]

Facebook 10 Stories

More and more our relationship to technology is transforming ways we connect with people around the world. Today I found out about Facebook’s 10 Stories project.Т The site highlights 10 […]