The KQED Education 2024-25 school year report is out! I’m so proud of our successes this year, including my work managing KQED Teach (pg 12) and the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification (pg 13). KQED Teach was reviewed in the spring by researchers from the National Association for Media Literacy Education who found that 90% …
My last responsibility with KQED Education was to co-lead a couple of workshops at “Library Camp,” a full day professional development day for Santa Clara based librarians from August 27-28. Our objective was the share our unique perspective on AI and student learning, based on our experience as a media producer and educational nonprofit focused …
I just finished Ethan Mollick’s excellent book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, which I’m sure I’ll be thinking about for awhile. For the past two years, I’ve been following Mollick’s ruminations about AI on his blog “One Useful Thing.” As an educator actively experimenting with AI in his classroom, he has helped inform how …
I am excited to announce the launch of two new courses on KQED Teach focused on GenAI in the classroom: These courses join our first GenAI course “Partner with GenAI to Elevate Authentic Student Voice” to complete our trifecta of offerings that bring together the full picture of media literacy – ANALYZE, EVALUATE and CREATE …
After six and half wonderful years, I was informed last week that my position at KQED was eliminated due to budget cuts and loss of federal funding. I loved my job and my team, so as you can imagine, I’m just gutted. But I’m also feeling hopeful and energized to explore where I can best …
I made this video short to express my concern about the White House’s recent Executive Order to cut funding for PBS and NPR. If you believe in the importance of independent, local, commercial-free media, then consider adding your voice to ProtectMyPublicMedia.org.
My role at work has shifted to leading more professional development workshops for teachers. This week, I co-led a workshop on partnering with AI to support student media making. We had 227 folks turn out! When you are leading workshops online, it’s hard to know if you are hitting your marks. But it’s great to …
Today is the birthday Fred McFeely Rogers, aka “Mister Rogers.” One of my earliest heroes, he modeled for me a way of being, or looking at the world, and a vision for community that continues to inspire me to this day. I now work for a PBS station, which is honestly still a thrill. One …
I”m excited to announce the newest course on KQED Teach — “Partner with GenAi to Elevate Authentic Youth Voice.” In this short course you will learn about KQED Education’s unique take on generative AI in the classroom and see how you can customize an AI chatbot that supports student media making. Pre-enroll here. Partner with …
So it’s pledge time again at KQED, the public media station I work at. To spread the word, I decided to create a video on my personal Instagram account on why public media is so important to me. But as anyone who follows me on Instagram knows, I mostly post about roller skating. So I …