Monday, November 03, 2003

Kids doing videos

Mike Proctor turned me onto this while we were concepting new Tonkin spots.

The Media Spot

Take a look at the projects section.

Here's their statement: "Since our students will have watched approximately sixteen thousand hours of television by high school's end, questions should have arisen, even in the minds of officials at the Department of Education, about who will teach our students how to look at television, and when not to, and with what critical equipment when they do. "
--Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death

The Media Spot builds media literacy in the K-12 classroom. We are a group of educators and media professionals providing a production-based curriculum to schools, and resources for students and educators to tap into the larger media literacy movement.

We work with teachers to connect video and the Internet to their current subject material, and then collaborate with students in the classroom to produce projects with these media.

This process allows students to understand what it means to be a producer of media, helps them think critically about the relationships between producers and consumers in our media-saturated society, and empowers them with the skills to make their own voices heard in their media environment.

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