TFDA is a national alliance composed of 19 national nonpartisan organizations that was formed in 2016 as a collective voice to encourage democratic learning and to better equip K-12 teachers and administrators to bring practical democracy lessons to their students. Please join us for an information session to learn more about TFDA’s work, high-quality resources available for teachers and school leaders, and learning opportunities.
Project Look Sharp’s Director of Curriculum and Staff Development, Chris Sperry, will give an overview of free resources – including hundreds of lessons – for teaching about sourcing, accuracy and bias in media messages. Project Look Sharp’s Constructivist Media Decoding approach integrates inquiry-based, student-centered, curriculum-driven media analysis for teaching core subject area content and habits of questioning.
To complement the Media Literacy Week Film Festival, Kendra Hodgson of Women Make Movies and Alexandra Peterson of Media Education Foundation will show clips from the week’s available films and discuss how to incorporate documentaries into your classroom as vehicles to explore key media literacy concepts.
How can we introduce in grades K-3 the type of deep questioning and critical thinking skills necessary for all students to evaluate the media messages they see, read and hear in today’s world? Highlighting dozens of free lessons from Project Look Sharp that use the kinds of media children already have in their lives (food packages, movies, YouTube videos, etc.), this highly interactive presentation will demonstrate how inquiry-based, student-centered, curriculum-driven media analysis can engage even the youngest students in questions about what’s true and what’s not.