This video showcases how media literacy teachers, Michael Novick and Kyra Wolfe, were able to redesign a project-based learning experience to adjust to student interest while staying grounded in media literacy concepts, student critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration.
Program Background
In 2009 Brooklyn School of Inquiry (BSI) began a partnership with Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) to record and archive yearly interviews with each BSI student. Â During the 2014-2015 school year 6th grade students were given their footage from the previous 6 years to watch for the first time.
Novick and Wolfe, during the weeklong during the Summer Institute in Digital and Media Literacy, planned a production assignment that would have students edit their personal archival footage to present themselves as learners over time. Â However, they found that not all students were as interested in the footage as they’d expected. Â The clarity of their essential questions “who am I as a learner?” and “how can I express that using media production?” Â allowed them to open up the parameters of the project.
