Educator Innovator

Host Christina Cantrill sits down with project leads from Playable Fashion, one of our 2015 LRNG Innovators Challenge grant recipients to discuss the project and learn about what’s happened since the program was initially funded. Get more info about this project, plus related links, at https://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/lrng-innovators-playable-fashion-live-from-the-2018-nwp-resource-development-retreat/

Host Christina Cantrill sits down with project leads from two of our 2017 Innovators Challenge grant recipients to discuss the positive outcomes, as well as the challenges, from the work that took place over the course of last year. More info about the projects, along with related links from the show, at https://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/lrng-let-em-shine-and-green-is-the-new-pink-live-at-the-2018-nwp-resource-development-retreat/

Christina Cantrill (NWP) visits with Katie Kline (Greater Kansas City Writing Project) and Katie McKay (Heart of Texas Writing Project) about the work they’ve done through their LRNG Innovators challenge grants. For background about these projects and related links, visit https://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/lrng-innovators-agency-and-audience-live-from-the-2018-nwp-resource-development-retreat/

Join Steven Zemelman, author of From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in All Content Areas, for a conversation about how educators can support youth to become, not only college and career ready, but citizen ready as well. Guests will discuss practical steps for preparing students for civic engagement via research, argument, speaking and listening, engaged reading, writing for real audiences and purposes, and collaboration. Zemelman is joined by educators Mauricio Pineda, Elizabeth Robbins, and Heather Van Benthuysen and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator. Guests for this episode include: - Joe Dillon (host), teacher, Rangeview High School in Aurora Public Schools in Colorado and Denver Writing Project Teacher-Consultant - Remi Kalir, As

Listen in as we discss the Digital Civics Toolkit, a collection of resources for educators to support youth in exploring, recognizing, and taking seriously the civic potentials of digital life. Guests - Erica Hodgin, Associate Director, Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) at University of California, Riverside; Research Director, Educating for Participatory Politics Project - Carrie James, Research Associate and a Principal Investigator, Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education - Sangita Shresthova, Director of Research, Civic Imagination Project, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California Find links for the show at https://educatorinnovator.org/podcasts/the-digital-civics-toolkit-supporting-youth-in-civic-engagement/

Originally recorded on September 5, 2018 for NWP Radio, this episode features guests discussing the Writing/Making Massive Open Online Collaboration (wmMOOC), an online professional learning experience for teachers that tackled digital composing last summer, specifically the idea that writing is a form of making. Guests - Vicki McQuitty, Director, Maryland Writing Project; Elementary Ed Dept., Towson University - Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Middlebury, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media - Joe Runciman, Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology, Towson University - Stacey Scheper, Volunteer, Youth Theater - Christina Cantrill (host), National Writing Project Find links from the show at https://educatorinnovator.org/podcasts/writing-as-making-wmmooc/

Join Erica Hodgin, author of “Educating Youth for Online Civic and Political Dialogue: A Conceptual Framework for the Digital Age,” for a conversation about ways educators can support youth in critically engaging online civic and political dialogue in this age of digital media and online communication. Hodgin is joined by educators Jason Muniz and Paul Oh and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is April’s featured article for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join April Baker-Bell, Raven Jones Stanbrough, and Sakeena Everett, the authors of “The Stories They Tell: Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing, and Critical Media Literacy,” for a conversation about the ways mainstream media reinforce white supremacy and anti-blackness. The authors will also discuss how Black youth use social media as counterspaces and how critical media literacy tools can support young people in rewriting harmful narratives. Finally, they will elaborate on what responsibility English educators have to transform the status quo and counter racial injustice. The authors are joined by educator-scholars Cherise McBride and Nicole Mirra and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join Joseph Kahne for a conversation with fellow educators about his recent article, “Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation,” co-authored by Benjamin Bowyer. Guests will discuss the study that informs the article, which investigated youth judgments of truth claims tied to controversial political issues, and media literacy strategies educators can use to improve judgments of accuracy. They are joined by the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join educators Laura Bradley, Kate Fox, and Jennifer von Wahlde as they discuss the ways they have been supporting students by finding authentic audiences and making connections outside their classrooms that are meaningful beyond the standard audience of one, the teacher. As LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees, these teachers have been designing for connected learning in their contexts, exploring the power that authentic audiences have for their students’ motivations and performances. Join them to hear about what they have been discovering as well as how they have been designing this work.

Join The Sprout Fund’s Tricia Monticello Kievlan for a conversation about a new collection of forthcoming connected learning resources developed by innovative educators in Pittsburgh. Tricia will be joined by two educators who developed materials for this project based on their exemplary connected learning programs: Jess Gold from Assemble, and Jamaal Davis from the Labs @ CLP at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Join Linda Christensen for a conversation with fellow educators Andrea Zellner and Kevin Hodgson about her recent article, “Critical Literacy in Our Students’ Lives,” in which they discuss bringing students’ own experiences, talents, and social contexts to the fore in the classroom. They are joined by the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, an exploration of scholarship on civic engagement and web annotation project at Educator Innovator.

Minecraft: Education Edition is a more than an educational version of most everyone’s favorite video game. It has become the central hub for learning for many classrooms, connecting students and teachers alike. This webinar features a panel of experts, including educators Steve Isaacs, Cathy Cheo-Isaacs, and Minecraft Education manager/Connected Learning in Teacher Education leader Meenoo Rami. Moderated by game-based learning researcher Matthew Farber, Ed.D., best practices are discussed, as are easy entry points to onboard teachers who have little or no background in adapting Minecraft to their classrooms.

Fake News has been described as a type of propaganda that consists of misinformation, disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. We have seen this moniker rise to the national level of discussion around media and information literacy education, and critical thinking. This webinar addresses how the term fake news is being used in popular lexicon. Panelists share their perspectives on what further conceptualization and actions are needed for educators to successfully navigate today’s evolving media climate, with a view towards developing modes of instruction for addressing mis- and dis-information campaigns in the media, and cultivating our students’ greater media discernment.

Join Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia for a conversation about their recent article, “Civic Participation Reimagined: Youth Interrogation and Innovation in the Multimodal Public Sphere,” in which they discuss connected teaching, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and visions for the future of democracy. They are joined by the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

In this “make-with-me” episode, NAMLE’s Jaclyn Siegel and Caitlin Barry will provide examples of media literacy activities that can be implemented in History and English classrooms, grades 6-12. They will cover activities relating to news media, social media, stereotypes in the media, and video production. Viewers will receive lesson activity examples and resources to use in their own classroom!

With a small twist of fate, any hero could become a villain, and any villain, a hero. That was the premise of 2016’s Twist Fate Challenge, a month-long challenge for youth ages 13-17 that kicked off during last year’s Teen Tech Week. A collaborative partnership between DeviantArt and Wattpad with the Young Adult Library Association and the National Writing Project as part of the Connected Learning Alliance, the challenge prompted youth to pick a story and character, and create an alternate scenario where a famous hero is the villain, or an infamous villain, the hero. They worked in their favorite modes and mediums, including pictures, written stories, comic panels, illustrations, etc. Now finalists’ work is included in a published book! The Twist Fate book contains contributions from 60 deviants and 40 more from Wattpad chosen from thousands of participants. In this conversation, members of the editorial team will discuss their experiences engaging with youth submissions in such a wide range of genres and de

In this conversation, we use storytelling and discussion to explore the ways in which making can excite and empower traditionally underserved populations. We hope to show what equity-minded maker education looks like in action, and provide guidance for educators looking for ways to authentically engage all members of their community through making.

Creating and starting a makerspace is an exciting venture; you build a team and purchase new equipment. There are a lot of resources (people and articles) that describe how emergent makerspaces can get off the ground. Once your makerspace has been open for a few years, you begin to experience challenges that are distinctly different from those start-up challenges, and there are very few, if any, resources that describe what this new, “post-emergent” phase entails. Three labs in the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network will lead you through a workshop where they present and talk through a framework that supports makerspaces in thinking through what this phase involves, and how to not be caught off guard by those challenges.

For this conversation, we are joined by Kira Baker Doyle, author of the new book, Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World, which follows civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory practices and connected technologies to organize change from the ground up. In this 3-part series, we explore what it means to be a transformative teacher, along with how and why educators are instrumental in the creation of a more just and equitable future.