I read this really interesting conversation with Georgetown professor Jeanine Turner on how smartphones have fundamentally changed the dynamic of what students “being present” means, even when the phone is turned off. This section in particular gave me pause: I absolutely believe that every teacher, every presenter in a business situation, if you want people’s attention on you, you …
I was watching the latest musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, in which one of the principal characters, Nyota Uhura, considers what her role is on the starship Enterprise. It’s a banger of a number and the actress Celia Rose Gooding kills it. It hit me right in the feels, not only because …
After two and a half years of the pandemic, I was so excited to go to my first real education conference for KQED, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in New Orleans, Louisiana at the end of June. ISTE is one of the largest edtech conventions in the country, bringing together industry leaders, …
“Hi, my name is Maya. I go to school in the Richmond and I love badminton!” The “North Star” of our education department is to “elevate diverse youth voices.” As a diverse team, we operationalize this goal through a number of different strategies. My job as the manager of online learning is focused on supporting …
I”m thrilled to announce that I am leading up a new professional learning community focused on Bay Area educators who want to earn the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. We’re calling it the Bay Area Media Literacy PLC (professional learning community.) Getting to work with and support local teachers is one of the …
In November, my manager Randy Depew and I gave a lightning talk for the virtual Open Education Conference. Our topic was “KQED Media Academy: Designing Open PD that is Open to All Educators”. It was a great opportunity for us to talk about how we have designed our KQED Media Academy courses to be as …
I’m so excited to lead a hands-on workshop at the virtual Fall CUE conference on Monday, October 26. The subject of our session is: “Lies, Damn Lies and Deepfakes: Teaching Media Analysis to All Grades”. It’s going to be a fun, hands-on meetup with teachers, where I will get them analyzing and evaluating media, spotting …
Today is the start of our third week at KQED working virtually, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While I am extremely bummed to not be in the same physical space as my KQED education team, I could not be more proud of the work that we are doing now. Our mission to support teachers …
I am delighted to share the new set of curricula from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), “Civic Online Reasoning.” This set of teaching resources adds to SHEG’s already impressive contributions to the field of media literacy. A key proponent of the “lateral reading” method of online fact checking, SHEG’s “Civic Online Reasoning” curricula takes …
I’m so proud of the work of our Above the Noise team at KQED Education on their new video on deepfakes. Such a complicated and potentially scary topic for our civic discourse. They do such a great job breaking down what is a deepfake, what makes it so potentially devastating to our public life, and what …