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=Media Literacy, Teaching and Learning And 21st Century Skills:=
 
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=JOURNALISM IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM -- WHAT'S GOING ON?=
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=JOURNALISM IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM -- WHAT'S GOING ON? -- Room 335=
 
===<i>SEMINAR TITLE: Student As Researcher, Producer and Publisher: New Media, Education, and Journalism</i>===   
 
===<i>SEMINAR TITLE: Student As Researcher, Producer and Publisher: New Media, Education, and Journalism</i>===   
  
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<h4>[http://ezregister.com/events/536/ FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION / INFO] ......[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mit-oct24.jpg  VIEW / PRINT FLYER]</h4>
 
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*WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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==FORMAT==
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*WHERE: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building E-51 (Tang Center) / 2 Amherst St., Cambridge MA 02142, Room 335
 
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*CONVENOR: Bill Densmore, director/editor, [http://www.mediagiraffe.org The Media Giraffe Project] at UMass Amherst; fellow, [http://www.rjionline.org/ Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute,] Missouri School of Journalism
 
  
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<big>In the last couple of years, a new term has been added to the lingo of media-literacy educators -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement "news literacy."] What is news literacy and how does it related to now well-established world of media literacy? In a breathtakingly fast 90-minute overview, nine practioners provide specific examples of journalism in American secondary-school classrooms, including the latest uses of Internet technology. We'll stream and video archive this example-packed session. Bring your examples, too.
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The entire session (and at least one of the breakouts) will be videotaped and is ON THE RECORD.) We hope to stream it live, as well.
  
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This workshop will look at the role of citizen journalism and new media has in teaching and learning and shaping the discussion about critical social, political and technical issues with K-12 students. We will explore the use of the web, blogs, on line surveys and other social media tools and how to apply the principles of journalism in shaping their use in the classroom.
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==SCHEDULE==
  
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After quick videos, we'll dissolve into three breakouts, so we can all deep-dive into the presentors that are of most interest. These breakouts will last 20 minutes and will repeat, so you can attend two of three breakouts during the entire session. We'll then reconvene to share what we've learned and propose next steps. </big>
 
  
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====Tentative breakouts====
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*10:15 a.m.-10:20 a.m. -- Densmore intro / format explanation; ask participants to be thinking of logical breakouts, and explains there will be one chance
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<ul><ul><ul>
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to "switch." I think I'd like the presenters to all start by sitting with the participants all about the room and as I call you each by name, you stand
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up -- but only come forward after the one-minute videos). I think this will add a little drama, and emphasize that this is not a "panel discussion."
  
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1. How to get started -- <b>Tools, technologies, practical steps.</b> With Melissa Wantz, Diana Mitsu Klos and Michael McSweeney and other presenters.<br>
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*10:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. -- Remix of one-minute videos shown. Upload your one-minute video by Friday, Oct. 16, to YouTube with the tag "mithome09". Sarah
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Platanitis (413-530-7006 / anselblue@gmail.com) will download and remix them together with a title page between each. Please email her with your title
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page info (10 words, max, with your name and location/affiliation) and a confirmation that you've uploaded to YouTube.
  
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2. <b>Building virtual and real communities, and the student as civic participant.</b> with Dare Brawley, Melissa Wantz and Diana Laufenberg and other presenters.<br>
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*10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. -- We all come forward. Bill Densmore goes to the white board and asks audience participants to shout out suggestions for
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conceptual tie-ins from what they've just seen; this discussion is interactive with the presenters.
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-- Organically through this discussion, we learn a bit more about the context and background of some of the videos, projects and people represented.
  
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3. <b>The pedagogy of journalism -- integrating with legacy curricula.</b> With Michael McSweeney and Alan Weintraut and other presenters.
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-- By the end of 15 minutes, we've resolved into two-to-four breakouts appropriate to the overall participant-group size.
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-- Densmore asks each group to appointed a raccounteur who will be responsible for reporting back a summary of their discussion/conclusions/insights (and
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emailing notes for wiki posting). Densmore assigns one or two presenters to each breakout group as discussion facilitator(s).
  
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====About the convenor====  
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==HOW IT WORKS: The breakouts==
  
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[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore] is director/editor of the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org Media Giraffe Project] at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the [http://www.newenglandnews.org New England News Forum.] He is a Fellow at the [http://www.rjionline.org Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute] at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is a co-founder of [http://www.circlabs.com CircLabs Inc.,] a Bay Area startup, which is developing a new way for users to discover, share, create, discuss and exchange value with publishers. Media Giraffe, launched in March 2005, in an effort to find and spotlight individuals making sustainable, innovative use of media (old and new) to foster participatory democracy and community.
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We'll have assigned a room (or a section of Room 335) where the two-to-four breakouts can meet. Each of we presenters will stick with our assigned
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breakout through BOTH breakout periods.
  
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==PARTICIPANTS / PRESENTERS (alpha order)==
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*10:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m. -- Breakouts assemble
  
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<h4>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mithome09-summaries MORE DETAIILED INFO ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS]</h4>
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*10:50 a.m.-11:10 a.m. -- First breakouts meeting. Be sure to ask everyone to give their name, affiliation, what they bring and what they want to learn.
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Please circulate a sign-in sheet so we capture names and email addresses from those who are OK providing them.
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*Dare Brawley is a high-school senior at the Poughkeepsie Day School i Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and editor of the school's feminist magazine called "Scarlet" created and read in grades 7-12. [mailto:airdare@gmail.com] / cell: (914) 475-7240
 
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*Diana Mitsu Klos runs the the American Society of News Editor's high-school journalism program and support services, including the [http://my.hjs.org/default.aspx largest online hosting service] for multimedia-student generate news. [mailto:dmk@asne.org] / 703-453-1125
 
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*Diana Laufenberg, teaches at the [http://www.scienceleadership.org/drupaled/about Science Leadership Academy] in Philadelphia, and will talk about her [http://dlaufenberg.pbworks.comElection+Day+2008+Project election-day project] in which students recorded their impressions and involvement in the 2008 presidential election. Laufenberg was a participant in the Journalism That Matters conference, [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-home "Rebooting the News,"] in October, 2008 at Temple University, and a signator of the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement "Consensus Statement on the Importance of News Literacy."] [mailto:dlaufenberg@gmail.com] / (928) 607-8142.
 
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*Joanna Marinova is co-director of programs and operations at [http://www.presspasstv.org/about-us/ PressPassTV.org] in Boston. Press Pass TV is a youth-adult partnership non-profit whose mission is to produce socially responsible video journalism, which promotes a more diverse media, empowers communities, and increases civic engagement. [mailto:joanna@presspasstv.org] / work: 617-633-1659.  
 
  
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*Michael McSweeney is English department chair at Reading (Mass.) Memorial High School, where a new initiative asks all juniors to complete a podcast telling a community slice-of-life human-interest story. [mailto:m_mcsweeney@verizon.net] / work: 781-944-8200 ext. 337.
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*11:10 a.m..-11:15 a.m. -- Breakout switch (discussion can continue during this five-minute period, but there will be people coming and going and the
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*Dean Miller is director of [http://www.sunysb.edu/journalism/cfnlaboutus.shtml The Center for News Literacy] in the Journalism School at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y., and a former daily newspaper editor from Idaho and the Northern Rockies. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he advised students journalists while studying management and comparative religion.  [mailto:dsmiller@notes.cc.sunysb.edu] / (631) 632-1893. 
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discussion leaders may have to repeat a bit of intro).
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*[http://www.anselblue.com/about.html Sarah Platanitis] teaches journalism and English in Holyoke, Mass. Using Flip digital camera, her students will prepare a short video for Oct. 24. She is a graduate of the [http://hsj.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute]. [mailto:anselblue@gmail.com] / (413) 530-7006.
 
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*Melissa Wantz teaches at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura, Calif., where journalism -- all online -- is being re-introduced after a five-year hiatus. Wantz used [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla! Joomla!] to develop an [http://www.thefoothilldragon.org online news site <i>"The Foothill Dragon")]</i> incorporating social-networking tools, video, polls, comments, contests and including [http://www.FTHSjournalism.ning.com Ning,] Google wikis and Google docs for student peer editing. She is a graduate of the [http://hsj.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute]. [mailto:melissa.wantz@gmail.com] / work: 805-289-0023 ext. 2602.
 
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*Lynn Washington runs the Convergent Media Magnet Program at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, S.C. The program combines newspaper, broadcast, yearbook and graphic design. She is also a Model United Nations Advisor. [mailto:lwashing@rnh.richland2.org] / (803) 699-2800 ext. 79751.
 
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*Alan Weintraut teaches at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Va., and was the Dow Jones High School Journalism Teacher of the Year two years ago. [mailto:ajweintraut@gmail.com] / (703) 642-4229.
 
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*Stephen Wilmarth, ran the [http://skills21.org/ Center for 21st Century Skills] in Connecticut for four years and now heads a [http://www.dragonstudentexchange.org/ program teaching media skills] to secondary-school students in rural China as a way of [www.ph-int.org giving "voice"] to the disenfranchised. He lectures at Ningxia Radio & TV University, Ningxia Vocational Polytechnic University and Ningxia Teachers University. [mailto:stephen.wilmarth@gmail.com] / (860) 227-1225.
 
  
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==WATCH SHORT-FORM VIDEOS (1-2 minutes each)==
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*11:15 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. -- Second breakout period. Participants can switch breakout topics or stay where they are, as they wish. The point of this
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exercise is to give people "permission" to divide their attention between two topics during the 45-minute breakout period.
  
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* Melissa Wantz -- Venture, Calif. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSNYH5FZH4A
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==LEARNING / NEXT STEPS / THE QUESTION==
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* Michael McSweeney -- Reading, Mass. --  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSS_pGZiFCU
 
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* Steve Wilmarth -- China and Westbrook, Conn. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5cJ3iddYxc (slightly longer)
 
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* Dean Miller -- Stony Brook, N.Y. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCD0LKprCoU
 
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* Dare Brawley -- Poughkeepskie, N.Y. --  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZccYjArVQpM
 
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* Sarah Platanitis -- Holyoke, Mass. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0pKSQNbLM
 
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* Alan Weintraut -- Annandale, Va. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMyS-quHqY
 
  
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==RELATED LINKS==
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*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-statement "A Consensus Statement About the Importance of News Literacy,"] from the [http://rebootingthenews.org <i>Rebooting the News</i> Conference] at Temple University, Oct. 24-25, 2008.
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11:30 a.m. -- Reconvene together in Room 335. Bill Densmore moderates.
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*More about the [http://www.hsj.org/Content.cfm?id=205 ASNE Reynolds Summer Journalism Institute]
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*[http://www.newsliteracyconference.com/content/ "News Literacy: Setting a National Agenda"] -- Stony Brook conference March 11-13, 2009.
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*VIDEO: [http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/blog/the_news_literacy_project_produces_new_video/ The News Literacy Project]: Students as teachers at Walt Whitman High School
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*Ask each raccounteur for a one-minute summary of what was learned and what was decided for next steps.  (This, realistically, will probably take 10
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*VIDEO: What is "news literacy?" The [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/node/671 Stony Brook experimental curriculum.]
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minutes).
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*VIDEO: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pYp2M4444&feature=channel Michael Moore on why gutting education has killed newspapers.] Does news/media literacy start to fix this problem?
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*VIDEO: [http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/2009/10/video-harvard-prof-michael-sandel-on-why-news-reading-is-critical-to-citizenship-not-consumership.html Harvard Prof. Michael Sandel on why news reading is critical to citizenship -- not consumer-ship]
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*For the final five minutes, a moderated discussion equally involving presenters and participants to answer this question: <br><br>
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*[http://www.highschooljournalism.org/Content.cfm?id=3 Background on the ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute]
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<big>"Do we see the tools and
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*[http://208.88.72.149/article_view/smid/370/articleid/96/reftab/57/t/2009-asne-reynolds-high-school-journalism-institute-participants.aspx#ma Participants in the ASNE Reynolds Institute.] <br>
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pedagogy necessary to help secondary students become critical, skeptical media users, smart, principled creators and engaged citizens? If not, what's
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needed?"</big>
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Revision as of 12:42, 24 October 2009

Media Literacy, Teaching and Learning And 21st Century Skills:

JOURNALISM IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM -- WHAT'S GOING ON? -- Room 335

SEMINAR TITLE: Student As Researcher, Producer and Publisher: New Media, Education, and Journalism

FORMAT

The entire session (and at least one of the breakouts) will be videotaped and is ON THE RECORD.) We hope to stream it live, as well.

SCHEDULE

  • 10:15 a.m.-10:20 a.m. -- Densmore intro / format explanation; ask participants to be thinking of logical breakouts, and explains there will be one chance

to "switch." I think I'd like the presenters to all start by sitting with the participants all about the room and as I call you each by name, you stand up -- but only come forward after the one-minute videos). I think this will add a little drama, and emphasize that this is not a "panel discussion."

  • 10:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. -- Remix of one-minute videos shown. Upload your one-minute video by Friday, Oct. 16, to YouTube with the tag "mithome09". Sarah

Platanitis (413-530-7006 / anselblue@gmail.com) will download and remix them together with a title page between each. Please email her with your title page info (10 words, max, with your name and location/affiliation) and a confirmation that you've uploaded to YouTube.

  • 10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. -- We all come forward. Bill Densmore goes to the white board and asks audience participants to shout out suggestions for

conceptual tie-ins from what they've just seen; this discussion is interactive with the presenters.

    -- Organically through this discussion, we learn a bit more about the context and background of some of the videos, projects and people represented. -- By the end of 15 minutes, we've resolved into two-to-four breakouts appropriate to the overall participant-group size.

-- Densmore asks each group to appointed a raccounteur who will be responsible for reporting back a summary of their discussion/conclusions/insights (and emailing notes for wiki posting). Densmore assigns one or two presenters to each breakout group as discussion facilitator(s).

HOW IT WORKS: The breakouts

We'll have assigned a room (or a section of Room 335) where the two-to-four breakouts can meet. Each of we presenters will stick with our assigned breakout through BOTH breakout periods.

  • 10:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m. -- Breakouts assemble
  • 10:50 a.m.-11:10 a.m. -- First breakouts meeting. Be sure to ask everyone to give their name, affiliation, what they bring and what they want to learn.

Please circulate a sign-in sheet so we capture names and email addresses from those who are OK providing them.

  • 11:10 a.m..-11:15 a.m. -- Breakout switch (discussion can continue during this five-minute period, but there will be people coming and going and the

discussion leaders may have to repeat a bit of intro).

  • 11:15 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. -- Second breakout period. Participants can switch breakout topics or stay where they are, as they wish. The point of this

exercise is to give people "permission" to divide their attention between two topics during the 45-minute breakout period.

LEARNING / NEXT STEPS / THE QUESTION

11:30 a.m. -- Reconvene together in Room 335. Bill Densmore moderates.

    • Ask each raccounteur for a one-minute summary of what was learned and what was decided for next steps. (This, realistically, will probably take 10
    minutes).
    • For the final five minutes, a moderated discussion equally involving presenters and participants to answer this question:

    "Do we see the tools and pedagogy necessary to help secondary students become critical, skeptical media users, smart, principled creators and engaged citizens? If not, what's needed?"
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