A conference to encourage K-12 educators to rethink the notion of what literacy is and how it can best be taught in the digital media age.
Fake news, propaganda and “alternative facts” have never been more of a threat to democracy than now. We owe it to our students to prepare them to navigate a complicated media landscape of video, social media and websites - in other words, to become media literate. This session will review the ways in which our students can read and interpret different forms of media, and give you the tools your students need to become literate in the media of now.
This session will connect to several of the learning outcomes in the IB Diploma Language and Literature syllabus, but also be applicable English teachers of younger students.
Technology transforms learning for all students but may have the greatest impact on developing readers and writers. This session will share strategies for leveraging digital tools with our youngest learners to capture student thinking, differentiate instruction and provide multimodal response options. From annotation with a drawing tool, to video feedback and collaboration on a learning management system, we’ll unpack student work samples and video lessons to find new instructional practices to empower students in the early years.
"If one wants to reach younger people at an earlier age to shape their minds in a critical way, you really need to know how ideas and emotions are expressed visually"
~ Martin Scorsese, director and filmmaker
This workshop will focus on developing visual literacy through narrative filmmaking. We’ll look into film grammar and how a film can be read as carefully and consciously as a story or poem. We’ll then cover practical approaches to film production and postproduction that have been democratised through the mobile technology available in our classrooms.
The session will cover:
How to read a film: an introduction to film grammar and interpreting images using examples from cinema.
Production: how to shoot a simple scene using a mastershot/coverage approach with a small production crew.
Post-production: the magic of the edit.
Resource considerations for filmmaking in the classroom
Audience: Anyone interested in using film and learning aboit how to empower groups of student filmmakers.
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This session will explore how different stages in the writing process can be amplified using technology. We will draw on the current practice in the Middle School English department at UWCSEA (Dover) using our Online Learning Platform (we use Teamie, but our processes apply to other Virtual Learning Environments) and the Google suite. This session will be conducted as a workshop in which we will explain and model our practice and then create the space for the group to apply and share.
