EXPLORING MEDIA STEREOTYPES IN THE CLASSROOM

A Teacher Education Workshop

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Sponsored by the Media Education Lab in collaboration with WHYY and ITVS Community Cinema

Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Location: WHYY, Independence Mall West Time: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Complimentary dinner provided Screening of Reel Injun at 6:30 p.m. Target Audience: Teachers in grades 3 – 6 and English, Social Studies, Technology, and Library/Media teachers in grades 7-12. Also appropriate for college educators, school leaders, youth development leaders. Act 48 credits are available. After completing this workshop, participants will: 1. Gain knowledge of the ethical responsibilities of authors, audiences and subjects in documentary and non-fiction genres 2. Learn strategies for using critical analysis activities with younger students 3. Understand how media shape our understanding of people and cultures of the world 4. Understand how identity is constructed through media genres, narrative conventions, and visual standards 5. Implement learning activities to help students represent themselves and others in socially responsible ways

EXPLORING MEDIA STEREOTYPES IN THE CLASSROOM

A Teacher Education Workshop

AGENDA 1 – 2:30 p.m. Media Literacy and Representation: Introduction In this session, you’ll learn three instructional strategies for teaching about stereotypes, get an introduction to theoretical concepts of representation, and explore the challenges and opportunities of teaching about media stereotypes. Presenters: Renee Hobbs, David Cooper Moore, Nuala Cabral, Yvonne Fulmore, Natasha Ngaiza, Tanya Jackson, Laura Stephenson 2:45 – 4 Talking Back to the Media In this session, we’ll discuss some examples of strategies for integrating media production activities that explore issues of representation. We’ll take a look at student work done at WHYY Public Media Commons and learn high-tech and low-tech media production activities for exploring how younger children and older teens can “talk back” to the media. Presenters: Craig Santoro, Henry Cohn-Geltner, David Cooper Moore 4 – 5 p.m. Exploring Gender and Racial Stereotypes in the Media We will view an excerpt of Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a film about gender and racial stereotypes in hip-hop music, demonstrating how active viewing and discussion activities promote media literacy. Then we’ll learn about a project at CAPA High School on exploring issues of representation in hip-hop music and examine approaches that encourage students to “talk back” to celebrities and media professionals about their creative choices and decisions. Presenters: Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Nuala Cabral, Tanya Jackson, Laura Stephenson 5 p.m. Dinner and Networking Break: Compliments of ITVS Community Cinema 6:30 p.m. ITVS Community Cinema Event: Screening of Reel Injun

Presenters and Facilitators

Renee Hobbs is one of the nation’s leading authorities on media literacy education and the Founder of the Media Education Lab at Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater. Over more than 20 years, she has worked with school districts and states to integrate digital and media literacy into the K-12 curriculum and is the author of Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning and Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. Nuala Cabral is an educator and filmmaker with expertise in media literacy, youth leadership and community activism. A recent graduate of Temple University’s graduate M.A. program in broadcasting, telecommunications and mass media, Nuala is co-founder of FAAN Mail, a media literacy and media activism project based in Philadelphia. Henry Cohn-Geltner is a media educator at the Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons. A veteran staffer of several Philadelphia community media programs, he has taught teens and adults to produce their own media, and has special interest in helping teachers use production techniques and media literacy in their classrooms. This Brooklyn native holds degrees from Temple University and the London School of Economics.

David Cooper Moore is a filmmaker and media literacy educator who serves as Program Director and Curriculum Developer for the Powerful Voices for Kids program at the Media Education Lab at Temple University. He has created educational videos for media literacy and facilitated workshops with the Media Education Lab He is currently completing a graduate degree in Temple's Film and Media Arts program with a focus on documentary.

Sara Zia Ebrahimi learned to talk in Iran and to press the record button in the United States. Since then she’s been fascinated with the recording of sounds and images both personally and professionally. She currently works as a freelance marketing and outreach consultant with arts and cultural organizations including Independent Television Service's Community Cinema program and the Leeway Foundation.

Yvonne Fulmore is a media artist who is interested in the depiction patterns of underrepresented groups in media, as well as media's educational potential. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Arts and Sciences at Wellesley College. Having recently received her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Media Arts Production from the University at Buffalo, she is currently a doctoral student in Mass Media and Communication at Temple University. Tanya Jackson is an independent media maker and media literacy educator, recently earning a Master's Degree from the Broadcasting, Telecommunications & Mass Media department at Temple University. Tanya has worked in high school settings helping teen parents develop life skills as well as facilitating youth media productions. She is currently conducting research to study the framing of Black male images in local news media, and is in production on a documentary series about the human capacity to persevere through tremendous life struggles. Natasha Ngaiza is a MFA candidate in the Film and Media Arts department at Temple University. Natasha explores the representation of African people in cinema and the use of media as a tool to engage people in civic action. Natasha was awarded a Flaherty Documentary Film fellowship which brings together young leaders in documentary film with established filmmakers. Craig Santoro is the Director of Media Instruction at WHYY's Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons. Craig joined WHYY in 2002 and shortly thereafter started the station’s first youth media program. Since then, he has created and managed ongoing after-school documentary workshops for Philadelphia teenagers and partnered with community centers to hold video production classes for teens who dropped out of school. He’s developed award-winning video summer camps, partnered with numerous schools to train teachers to use video in their classrooms and created video learning experiences for nonprofit organizations.

Laura Stephenson is a media literacy parent advocate. She is currently a doctoral student at Temple University's Mass Media and Communication program where her research interests include media literacy and parental mediation. She has a BA in sociology from Stanford University and a MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn. Through her experience in media production, education administration, and parenting, Laura helps parents positively affect children's media literacy skills.

For more information: www.mediaeducationlab.com