Name
Turning School TVs into Netflix, not C-SPAN
Date & Time
Thursday, October 17, 2024, 2:45 PM - 3:40 PM
Description
Students create their own projects, but fear takes away said agency in schoolwide projects. In Norton fear was forgotten for a second, and a student was given permission to edit school TVs, which struggled to engage with bland, educator-created media. He photoshopped teachers' faces onto TVs for respective Spirit Week themes, and the whole school was hooked. This principle changed Norton, allowing students to customize media and curate student engagement, and it can change others. The talk will have educators come up with uses of school media, and then the presentation will start featuring student examples, showing how students created, and how staff kept power. At the end of the presentation, educators will see how students' ideas are much more targeted to school and student engagement than theirs. By giving teachers the why via examples, and the how through explanations, they will go “beyond the surface” and employ student agency in schoolwide media to create a strong community.
Location Name
Blue Level, Suite 19
Full Address
Gillette Stadium
1 Patriot Place
Foxborough, MA 02035
United States
Session Type
Ed Talk