NWP Radio

Join NEXMAP for a back to school series, “Literacy, Craft, Civic Engagement – A Paper Circuitry Project for L2P 2.0,” spanning August and September that explores how young people can use paper circuitry to voice their opinions and showcase creative expression. The NEXMAP team will help both educators and young people explore how to use paper circuitry to write a letter to the next president and pr...

Join NEXMAP for a back to school series,"Literacy, Craft, Civic Engagement – A Paper Circuitry Project for L2P 2.0," spanning August and September that explores how young people can use paper circuitry to voice their opinions and showcase creative expression. The NEXMAP team will help both educators and young people explore how to use paper circuitry to write a letter to the next president and pro...

Join NEXMAP for a back to school series,”Literacy, Craft, Civic Engagement – A Paper Circuitry Project for L2P 2.0,” spanning August and September that explores how young people can use paper circuitry to voice their opinions and showcase creative expression. The NEXMAP team will help both educators and young people explore how to use paper circuitry to write a letter to the next president and pro...

In this hangout, participants asked what impact the current political climate, often characterized by its divisiveness, has on teaching debate and media literacy. Educators and experts in the field discussed why supporting students to have critical conversations while remaining open to others’ points of view is so important in this atmosphere. Guests also discussed how students can develop and hon...

Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about teaching with primary sources as part of a sustained inquiry process throughout which youth share learning, solutions, and products beyond the classroom. Guests discussed the questions about matching primary sources with problem- and project-based learn...

View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, production, and distribution techniques to explore the possibilities of using readily available tools and to reach a broad audience—the power is in your own hands! Participants from the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and Fusion, along with educators and s...

Math Teachers’ Circles are professional learning communities focused on collaborative problem solving. In this webinar, Math Teachers’ Circle leaders talked about what makes a good problem, including the difference between a problem and an exercise, the art of problem posing, and how differentiated learning can emerge naturally from the exploration of rich, multifaceted problems. Although the disc...

Spoken word, or oral poetry, can help students critically examine dominant narratives to make sense of their own experience through language and express themselves using their own vernacular. As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this L2P 2.0 Make Cycle/Media Make hangout is a chance for students to create oral “letters” to the next president. This...

Join members of the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) leadership team as they discuss how CRWP materials and principles encourage students to treat opposing views with respect and generosity. Students who write from CRWP materials start with an inquiry stance towards an issue and revisit their opinion in light of multiple, often opposing points of view. Such experiences for students are designe...

In recent years, a wave of new research focused upon the interplay between participatory culture, learning, and politics has emerged from the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative and in particular, from two related research networks, The Youth and Participatory Politics Network and the Connected Learning Network. This scholarship has often focused on such core concepts as “...

In the midst of the 2016 US President Election cycle, how can we support the youth we work with in being critical media creators and agents around topics they care about instead of just consumers and targets of other people’s media? Join educators from the NWP, the LAMP, hypothes.is, and the Mozilla Foundation, who looked at a range of youth creations and free, open, and online tools and resources...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. What important roles can investigative journalism play in news, politics, and society, and how can young people become "citizen watchdogs" themselves? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/political-investigative-journalism-playing-the-watch...

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this Media Make how-to hangout focused on the power of data visualization to create compelling arguments about election issues. Guests introduced different tools and formats for bringing data to life visually and shared best practices for helping students know where to start. This hangout was hosted by KQED and...

In this hangout, representatives from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will discuss the development and launch of the Digital Literacy Resource Platform (DLRP), an evolving collection of tools that a range of audiences (from educators to parents) can use to learn more about online safety, privacy, information quality, creativity, and copyright. These tools aim to emp...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. How can young people play an active role as consumers and creators of news and information about political issues? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/reflections-on-national-campaign-coverage-challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-2016-presi...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. How can student reporting and journalism support strong storytelling, revision and self-efficacy capabilities? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/pbs-newshour-student-reporting-labs-engaging-gen-z-with-video-journalism-for-students-by-stu...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. How can students learn about under-reported issues and varying perspectives? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/developing-a-global-perspective-on-under-reported-challenges/

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this Educator Innovator Media Make how-to hangout examined the elements of influential political art, featuring such artists as Banksy and Corita Kent. Participants discussed how students can make their own political art to address injustices that affect their daily lives, initiate discussion, and influence soc...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. What possibilities does participatory journalism open up for learning and engagement? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/callingallvoices-participatory-journalism-and-the-changing-nature-of-news/

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. What can civic educators and researchers in a range of settings learn from each other? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/thinking-across-civic-education-work/

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. What are ways that educators can promote equitable and impactful youth civic and political engagement? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/educators-experiences-educating-for-participatory-politics/

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this “Media Make” how-to hangout offered an invitation for youth to create short videos about election issues that matter to them personally, or impact their communities. Participants–including media makers, educators, and learners–shared practical tips for making effective videos with a smartphone and online e...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. How does youth participatory action research (YPAR) transform what it means to engage in inquiry by focusing on young people’s interest in public life and their developing identities as citizens? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/ypar-in...

"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. How can we support educators in and out of schools to find avenues to promote equitable and impactful youth civic and political engagement despite other competing demands? http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/supporting-educators-to-educate...

As part of a special series designed for the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, this kickoff “Media Make” features educators Janelle Bence and Chris Sloan leading a conversation with students and other teachers about developing and discussing diverse political views in the classroom during a particularly contentious election. Watch the full hangout at: http://educatorinnovator.org/webinars...