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Teaching Presidential Elections (from NAMLE and Teaching for Democracy Alliance)

presented by: The National Association for Media Literacy Education

View the archive of this NAMLE and the Teaching for Democracy Alliance co-streamed webinar about Teaching Presidential Elections, which originally...

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

presented by: Educator Innovator

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

presented by: Educator Innovator

How do teachers invite students to both be themselves and become a community in these times? Alan Singer has been sharing suggestions at Huffington P...

An Invitation to Share Ideas: How Will You Be Teaching Election 2016?

presented by: New York Times Learning Network

As the New York Times Learning Network gets ready to bring you new lesson plans for a new school year, including many more resources for Election 201...

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Dan Doernberg Previews NowComment’s New Image and Video/Audio Annotation Features

presented by: National Writing Project

Join +Dan Doernberg from http://nowcomment.com on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers from August 24th, 2016. (http://edtechtalk.com/ttt). ...

Why Election 2016 is All About Remix

presented by: Lamp

Just as the 1960 election is remembered for being changed by television, the 2016 elections may be remembered as being changed by remix. Candidates ha...

A New School Year And Our Greatest Fear

presented by: Teaching Channel

In this blog post for Tchers’ Voice, 2014 National Teacher of the Year and current Teaching Channel Laureate Sean McComb reflects on how teacher...

Argumentative Writing Helps Students Become Participants in the Real World

This blog post from Casey Olsen, a secondary English teacher affiliated with the Montana Writing Project, touches on the importance of argument writin...

Teaching Debate and Media Literacy in a Polarized Political Climate

presented by: Educator Innovator

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

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

presented by: Educator Innovator

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

presented by: Educator Innovator

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...

Primary Sources, Problem-based Learning, and L2P 2.0: Stimulating and Supporting Youth Learning in Science

presented by: National Writing Project

Trey Smith, Teacher Consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project and 2015-16 Science Teacher-in-Residence at the Library of Congress led a round...

Teaching Controversial Topics – Webinar

The Teaching for Democracy Alliance is made up of organizations working together to equip teachers and administrators to talk about elections & v...

Hangout: Spoken Word Letters

presented by: Educator Innovator

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

KQED Teach

presented by: KQED

KQED Teach is a fun and social online learning platform for educators to improve their media literacy skills. KQED Teach is dedicated to engaging edu...

Arguing the CRWP Way: Establishing a Classroom Climate for Inquiry and Generosity

presented by: National Writing Project

Join members of the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) leadership team for a discussion of how CRWP materials and principles encourage students to ...

Creating a Culture of Argument

presented by: National Writing Project

This BloomBoard collection by the National Writing Project offers middle and high school teachers multiple ways to approach “creating a culture ...

Webinar: Remix to Speak Back to Media

presented by: Educator Innovator

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...

Growing L2P 2.0 Into a Project That Can Have Impact Beyond the Classroom

presented by: National Writing Project

Steven Zemelman’s newest Heinemann title, From Inquiry to Action, combines two of his education passions: Choice-based inquiry approaches and ci...

Teachers Teaching Teachers: From Inquiry to Action with Steven Zemelman

presented by: National Writing Project

Annotate Steven Zemelman’s introduction for his latest book, From Inquiry to Action, and check out the archive of an NWP Teachers Teaching Teach...

NWP Radio—Design Thinking for Letters to the Next President 2.0

presented by: National Writing Project

Over the last couple of months, Writing Project colleagues have been thinking and talking about the opportunity of Letters to the Next President 2.0 t...

Media Make: Make Your Own Political Art (How-to Hangout)

presented by: KQED

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this Media Make examined the elements of influential politi...

Political Investigative Journalism: Playing the Watchdog Role

presented by: Educator Innovator

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...

Empowering Youth Around the World: Mozilla L2P 2.0 Curriculum Workshop & Civic Engagement Guide

presented by: Mozilla Foundation

How can today’s youth get started in civic engagement at home and in the world? After discussing that question during the latest Mozilla Curriculum ...

Media Make #3: Argue with Images! Infographics (How-to Hangout)

presented by: KQED

As part of a special series designed for Letters to the Next President 2.0, this Media Make how-to hangout focused on the power of data visualizatio...

Evidence & Arguments: Lesson Planning

presented by: Teaching Channel

This video from Teaching Channel contains an in-depth conversation on lesson planning for a High School English Language Arts class. Using a popular t...