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Make a Plan Through Play

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Jul 18, 2016


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From Research to Public Voice: Supporting Youth’s Writing for Civic Advocacy

Youth’s research into civic issues that engage their interests and ignite their passions can represent powerful learning experiences. Yet the genre ...

Listening, Leading, and Learning in Community during the 2016 Election

How do teachers invite students to both be themselves and become a community in these times? ...

Make a Plan Through Play

We encourage you to make a plan by playing the ...

Teaching Debate and Media Literacy in a Polarized Political Climate

In this hangout, participants asked what impact the current political climate, often characterized by its divisiveness, has on teaching debate and me...

Make Cycle #5 Archive: Make a Video Letter with your Phone

The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to make a short video that tells a story about how an election issue...

Looking Back, Learning Forward: Supporting Project- and Problem-Based Learning with Historical Primary Sources

Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about tea...

Make a Video Letter with Your Phone

View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, p...

Make Cycle #4 Archive: Make a Spoken Word Letter

The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to channel our inner poet/inner performer to play with spoken word po...

Make Cycle #3 Archive: Build an Argument

The third summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to embrace the power of argument as a means of supporting civic discou...

Make Cycle #2 Archive: Make a Visual Impact

The second summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to take a moment and reflect where you are in the midst of all the p...

Make Cycle #1 Archive: Remix to Speak Back to Media

We kicked off the first summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 by encouraging us all to remix to speak back to media. Here is archi...

Hangout: Spoken Word Letters

Spoken word, or oral poetry, can help students critically examine dominant narratives to make sense of their own experience through language and expre...

Webinar: Remix to Speak Back to Media

In the midst of the 2016 US President Election cycle, how can we support the youth we work with in being critical media creators and agents around to...

Political Investigative Journalism: Playing the Watchdog Role

Join host Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project for a conversation with Chicago Sun-Times reporters, Chris Fusco and Tim Novak. Fusco and Novak d...

Supporting Digital Literacy in and out of the Classroom

In this Educator Innovator hangout, representatives from the Berkman Center for ...

Reflections on National Campaign Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities in the 2016 Presidential Race

Join the News Literacy Project for a special conversation with national political reporters Matea Gold and Abby Phillip from The Washington Post...

Developing a Global Perspective on Under-Reported Challenges

In this Educator Innovator hangout, participants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting...

Thinking Across Civic Education Work

Watch an Educator Innovator discussion with educators and researchers from Educating for Pa...

Educators’ Experiences Educating for Participatory Politics

In this Educator Innovator hangout, teachers from Los Angeles, Oakland, and Chicago shared�...

Letters to the Next President 2.0 Kick-off Webinar

In this hangout, educators described the power of participating in the previous iteration of L2P and highlighted the growing set of opportunities and ...