xp I suspect that primary and secondary school teaching is going to mostly be a volunteer force in 20 years and work on an equivalent of the original Sunday School system in 30.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 11 February 2024 15:05 (three months ago) link
please consider teaching! media literacy is absolutely kicking our collective asses and we don't have enough people who understand it to teach kids about it
Teaching media literacy would have to be a stealth operation, because with the enshrinement of standard tests driving the entire curriculum these days there's not much space for anything else in a school day.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:54 (three months ago) link
I disagree. It’s pretty easy to align lessons on media literacy with the common core. You are assessing their ability to make inferences and comprehend nonfiction texts.
― treeship., Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:02 (three months ago) link
treesh, I know you're a smart and experienced enough teacher to control your own lessons in depth and make your teaching materials work for you rather than the other way around, but that is a high level and a difficult attainment. For a less experienced or committed teacher, the fact that most contemporary media are not consumed as nonfiction texts places a large constraint on their effectively teaching media literacy. Even more so, if the classroom materials are imposed rather than discretionary.
Anyway, I acknowledge your greater expertise on this, so if you think my perspective is insufficiently grounded, I'll accept your conclusions.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:20 (three months ago) link
Nice to see that Chicago's longtime alt-weekly is now an actual weekly again:https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/staff-notes/weekly-newspaper/
― jaymc, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:19 (one month ago) link
Good editorial.
― bae (sic), Saturday, 4 May 2024 18:39 (one month ago) link
yeah. stirring stuff!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 May 2024 20:55 (one month ago) link