[mm] Announcing the GK Media Masters Program!
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I'm excited to announce to the blog-o-webs today the launch of GK's newest project, the Media Masters afterschool program! Media Masters, or M(2), is our first attempt at creating a face to face afterschool program that has students utilizing a wide range of participatory media and Web 2.0 tools (as opposed to focusing on one medium) to gain leadership and media literacy skills in the context of addressing global and local issues.
We're working with our incredible partners at MIT's Project New Media Literacies to take the activities that they've been developing in their Learning Library to promote new media literacy acquisition and adapt them to GK's style of global issue education in the afterschool setting.
As part of the program, teens involved will be creating a ton of different types of media ranging from more traditional photos and video to things like comics, online maps and wikipedia entries. Make sure to watch the Media Masters section of this blog to see things as they post them. At the end of the year, the teens will be putting together their Digital Portfolio of these media artifacts, which will be paired with a Digital Transcript that we give them, the combination of which will display their "media mastery".
We're incredibly excited about this pilot program, which is very much a big experiment for us. And we're thrilled that MIT will be researching the whole thing, to help us see clearly how the experiment goes. We'll be checking back frequently with updates. Wish us luck, our first session at the Prospect Heights campus in Brooklyn is this Friday!
Comments
Good luck!!!
Now I wish I lived in NY... and, FINE - that I were in high school!
Posted by: Mariel | November 5, 2008 6:54 PM
Good Luck!
Sounds like a truly awesome program! :)
Posted by: Vicky | November 7, 2008 3:04 PM