The Site of Rik Panganiban
For the past few weeks, I’ve been revising one of my favorite courses on KQED Teach, “Understanding Copyright for Educators.” It’s a short, breezy introduction to the basics of copyright law, Fair Use, Creative Commons and the Public Domain. Fun stuff! When we originally wrote this course in 2022, there was a lot of complicated …
A short tribute to Claude, the albino alligator and ambassador for the California Academy of Sciences, from 2008 to his passing a week ago. I had the pleasure of working with Claude for the six plus years I served in the Academy education department. Most every morning, I would greet Claude on the way to …
I’ve been a media literacy educator for the past 17 years. And I’ve been a practicing Quaker for more than 25 years. Until recently, I haven’t put those two parts of me together. At its face this feels like a shaky juxtaposition. Media literacy is being able to consume, analyze, evaluate and share media effectively …
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 …