Summer Project

While I’m making bread, brewing coffee, ringing bells, reading Don Quixote, tutoring, and generally learning everything, Ben has asked the Interns to pick a project for the summer. (Such a hard life! Καλεπά τά καλά, etc.) We’ve all been thinking about it for a while now, and I’ve set out my goals. I’m going to be researching media literacy education, focusing on the inclusion of print media into the 9-12 English curricula. The following is an outline of my overall project:

• A short, informal, (philosophical?) paper:
• Definition and articulation of media literacy education
• Goals of media literacy education in K-12
• Apology for the inclusion of print media, at least, into the high school English curricula
• A portfolio:
• Five 60 minute lessons plans, complete with relevant worksheets, references, and guides for adaptation; these will be designed to be taught together over one week, making a cohesive unit
• Layout for a longer-term project assignment and suggestions for other kinds of assessment
• A bank of references for media literacy and lesson plans
• A presentation:
• An overview of the paper
• An overview of the print media unit
• Template design for current news media, adaptable year-by-year

It’s an ambitious project. Honestly, I’ll be lucky if I get the lesson plans done, but I have some ideas swirling in my head. In a day or two, after more research, I’ll write about my paper’s key themes, which should illumine my interest and incentive for taking on this project. Until then, toodles.