TMS on panel for PBS Event: Celebration of Teaching and Learning
On March 7th at the Hilton New York, I will be participating in a panel discussion titled: Watch it, Make it, Analyze it: Building Media Literacy Skills in Young People. The panel is part of the 4th annual Thirteen/WNET, WLIW21 Celebration of Teaching and Learning.
Panelists include Sherri Hope Culver, president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Frank Baker of the Media Literacy Clearinghouse, and moderator Renee Hobbs of Temple University's Media Education Lab. We will discuss changes in the definition of literacy in the face of the 21st century media environment. I will bring to the table my experiences as an educator working directly with K-12 teachers and students integrating digital media within literacy curricula to round out this group of scholars, organizers and curriculum developers.
Visit the Panel's page on the conference website: Watch it, Make it, Analyze it: Building Media Literacy Skills in Young People
More from the conference website:
The Celebration is probably best known for its incredible array of Keynote Speakers, women and men who are at the very top of their fields and whose insight will raise your expectations for your profession and for yourselves. That tradition continues in 2009 with Alan Alda (on science), Temple Grandin (on autism), Sir Kenneth Robinson (on creativity), Eric Schmidt (on technology), and the cast of the new ELECTRIC COMPANY (on literacy).
PS: I'm especially excited that one of my heroes, Danica McKellar, a.k.a. Winnie Cooper of TV's The Wonder Years, will be at the event to discuss her books: Math Doesn't Suck, and Kiss My Math!
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Congrats
February 23, 2009 by DanWay to go, Rhys. This is an important conference and your wealth of knowledge and experience will surely make for a lively and informative discussion. Good luck with it!