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Join Steven Zemelman, author of From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in All Content Areas, for a conversation about how educators can support youth to become, not only college and career ready, but citizen ready as well. Guests will discuss practical steps for preparing students for civic engagement via research, argument, speaking and listening, engaged reading, writing for real audiences and purposes, and collaboration. Zemelman is joined by educators Mauricio Pineda, Elizabeth Robbins, and Heather Van Benthuysen and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Guests for this episode include:

- Joe Dillon (host), teacher, Rangeview High School in Aurora Public Schools in Colorado and Denver Writing Project Teacher-Consultant

- Remi Kalir, Assistant Professor of Information and Learning Technologies at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development

- Steven Zemelman, Director of the Illinois Writing Project and independent education consultant, speaker, and writer

- Heather Van Benthuysen, Civic Education Manager for Chicago Public Schools. Education consultant, speaker, presenter, and writer

- Mauricio Pineda, Chicago arts and restorative practices educator, working at Reilly Elementary School and DePaul University

- Elizabeth Robbins, high school history teacher in the Chicago Public Schools

For related links, visit https://educatorinnovator.org/webinars/from-inquiry-to-action-civic-engagement-with-project-based-learning-in-all-content-areas/

Listen in as we discss the Digital Civics Toolkit, a collection of resources for educators to support youth in exploring, recognizing, and taking seriously the civic potentials of digital life.

Guests

- Erica Hodgin, Associate Director, Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) at University of California, Riverside; Research Director, Educating for Participatory Politics Project

- Carrie James, Research Associate and a Principal Investigator, Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education

- Sangita Shresthova, Director of Research, Civic Imagination Project, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California

Find links for the show at https://educatorinnovator.org/podcasts/the-digital-civics-toolkit-supporting-youth-in-civic-engagement/

Originally recorded on September 5, 2018 for NWP Radio, this episode features guests discussing the Writing/Making Massive Open Online Collaboration (wmMOOC), an online professional learning experience for teachers that tackled digital composing last summer, specifically the idea that writing is a form of making.

Guests

- Vicki McQuitty, Director, Maryland Writing Project; Elementary Ed Dept., Towson University

- Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Middlebury, Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media

- Joe Runciman, Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology, Towson University

- Stacey Scheper, Volunteer, Youth Theater

- Christina Cantrill (host), National Writing Project

Find links from the show at https://educatorinnovator.org/podcasts/writing-as-making-wmmooc/

Join Erica Hodgin, author of “Educating Youth for Online Civic and Political Dialogue: A Conceptual Framework for the Digital Age,” for a conversation about ways educators can support youth in critically engaging online civic and political dialogue in this age of digital media and online communication. Hodgin is joined by educators Jason Muniz and Paul Oh and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is April’s featured article for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join April Baker-Bell, Raven Jones Stanbrough, and Sakeena Everett, the authors of “The Stories They Tell: Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing, and Critical Media Literacy,” for a conversation about the ways mainstream media reinforce white supremacy and anti-blackness. The authors will also discuss how Black youth use social media as counterspaces and how critical media literacy tools can support young people in rewriting harmful narratives. Finally, they will elaborate on what responsibility English educators have to transform the status quo and counter racial injustice. The authors are joined by educator-scholars Cherise McBride and Nicole Mirra and the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join Joseph Kahne for a conversation with fellow educators about his recent article, “Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation,” co-authored by Benjamin Bowyer. Guests will discuss the study that informs the article, which investigated youth judgments of truth claims tied to controversial political issues, and media literacy strategies educators can use to improve judgments of accuracy. They are joined by the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, which explores a range of scholarship on civic engagement and supports their web annotation at Educator Innovator.

Join educators Laura Bradley, Kate Fox, and Jennifer von Wahlde as they discuss the ways they have been supporting students by finding authentic audiences and making connections outside their classrooms that are meaningful beyond the standard audience of one, the teacher. As LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees, these teachers have been designing for connected learning in their contexts, exploring the power that authentic audiences have for their students’ motivations and performances. Join them to hear about what they have been discovering as well as how they have been designing this work.

Join The Sprout Fund’s Tricia Monticello Kievlan for a conversation about a new collection of forthcoming connected learning resources developed by innovative educators in Pittsburgh. Tricia will be joined by two educators who developed materials for this project based on their exemplary connected learning programs: Jess Gold from Assemble, and Jamaal Davis from the Labs @ CLP at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Join Linda Christensen for a conversation with fellow educators Andrea Zellner and Kevin Hodgson about her recent article, “Critical Literacy in Our Students’ Lives,” in which they discuss bringing students’ own experiences, talents, and social contexts to the fore in the classroom. They are joined by the co-founders of Marginal Syllabus, Remi Kalir and Joe Dillon, for a discussion of the text, which is the featured article this month for Writing Our Civic Futures, an exploration of scholarship on civic engagement and web annotation project at Educator Innovator.

Minecraft: Education Edition is a more than an educational version of most everyone’s favorite video game. It has become the central hub for learning for many classrooms, connecting students and teachers alike. This webinar features a panel of experts, including educators Steve Isaacs, Cathy Cheo-Isaacs, and Minecraft Education manager/Connected Learning in Teacher Education leader Meenoo Rami. Moderated by game-based learning researcher Matthew Farber, Ed.D., best practices are discussed, as are easy entry points to onboard teachers who have little or no background in adapting Minecraft to their classrooms.