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 […]
