The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontildo and The Raven – The one-hour program presents three of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Raven.” Airs 10/31 at 10:30 p.m.
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Friday, October 25th
This week is U.S. Media Literacy Week! The mission of the week is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country.
This wraps up our week-long celebration of Media Literacy Education. We hope you’ve learned about Media Literacy, gained an understanding of how important it is for our students, and found some new activities or resources that are useful to you.
We encourage all of you to keep the momentum going. Media Literacy Education should be reinforced year round.
Use our Media Literacy LibGuide to help you find information for your teachers on a regular basis. This guide links out to information from:
- National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) FYI – individual membership is free
- Common Sense Media
- MediaWise
- News Literacy Project
- Project LookSharp
- The Media Literacy Clearinghouse
- The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
- Media Literacy Now
- The Media Literacy Crash Course videos
- AND MORE!
This LibGuide will be updated periodically to add new resources as we find them.
Some excellent books to help you continue your learning are available in our Overdrive/SORA account:
(Ctrl-click the picture to open SORA. Select your school, and then log-in using your regular school credentials – as if you are logging into your school computer). Please take this Post-Assessment, and give it to your students to see if their thinking has changed over the course of this week. (Results will be sent out to our librarians next week. If you are not in our region, please contact Liesl.)
Lastly, if you feel strongly about this topic and its importance in schools, Media Literacy Now has put together this call to action. Click the image below to get to the website.
Please share this with those who are willing and able to support this federal legislation.
Thank you for participating in Media Literacy Week!
Discover the real story of the notorious author, starring Denis O’Hare as Edgar Allan Poe. The program explores the misrepresentations of Poe and reveals how he tapped into what it means to be human in a modern and sometimes frightening world. Airs 10/31 at 9 p.m.
Voice of the Voter is a collaboration among WXXI Public Broadcasting, the Democrat and Chronicle, 13WHAM-TV and WDKX 103.9.
Airs 10/29 at 8 p.m.
#101 – Moving Planet – See new footage of the greatest, most beautiful and powerful movements on our planet. Cameras in space capture events like an elephant family’s struggle through drought, and thousands of Shaolin Kung-Fu students performing in perfect synchronicity.
Airs 10/23 at 10 p.m.
- Target El Paso – How El Paso became Trump’s immigration testing ground and then the target of a white supremacist. Through interviews with border patrol agents, militias, local advocates, and migrants, the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis. Airs 10/29 at 9 p.m.
Host Dr. Robert Putnam (Harvard Professor and author of BOWLING ALONE) spotlights innovative leaders and children, working together in nine communities, who struggle to create and inspire solutions that help to narrow the widening opportunity gap between rich and poor for some 30 million young people denied access to the American Dream. We hope viewers will try to build similar solutions in their neighborhoods. 4/60 minute programs airs Mondays at 2 a.m. beginning 10/28.
- #101 – Riverside, CA & Manchester, NH. The importance of mentors is illustrated in stories like that of a police detective starting a free judo school to “bait and switch” kids onto a better path. A revolutionary accelerated kindergarten program propels disadvantaged children by celebrating their smartness. Living in a homeless shelter designed around the needs of families, a little girl expresses her pride and determination in song.
- #102 – Children living in fractured homes and poverty can’t achieve equally with children who are financially and emotionally secure. Underserved children need extra services to be competitive. Equal is not Equitable. We illustrate this point in Duluth, MN, Boston, MA, Springfield, MO, and Nashville, TN. A grade school offers wrap-around-services including free food, family meals, clothing, laundry, and medical services.
- #103 – Detroit Educational Crisis. With deteriorating class room conditions and the worst test scores in the nation, this alarming episode casts its eye on the current educational crisis in Detroit. In this cautionary tale, both public and unregulated charter schools suffer from high teacher turnover, a shortage of up-to-date textbooks, lack of funding and financial accountability. We visit with students, teachers, parents and educational leaders in their innovative attempts to improve conditions.
- #104 – Seattle, WA & Columbus, OH. Giving hope to the hopeless dominates the stories in Seattle, WA and Columbus, OH. Among those spotlighted are: a program to reform the foster care system, and an organization reuniting children with parents who were incarcerated. Too many poor youth end up in the juvenile justice system. The Echo Glen facility hopes to heal, rather than punish young incarcerated teens.
The one-hour program is part of the American Graduate: Getting to Work initiative. JOURNEY TO JOBS is hosted by PBS Newshour’s Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City. Hari will take viewers across the country, highlighting individuals and organizations who are connecting job seekers to employment at each stop. The broadcast will tell the story of how communities are providing support, advice, and intervention services to youth, veterans, and adults in career transition. In JOURNEY TO JOBS, viewers hear directly from job seekers and the newly employed, business and nonprofit leaders, as well as program staff, volunteers and mentors as they work to create pathways to high-demand skilled careers. Each segment is tied to one of the American Graduate content strands, including Barriers to Employment, Career Pathways, Connecting Job Seekers to Networks, Innovative Career Education Models, and Mentorship.
Airs 10/21 at 8 p.m., 10/22 at 1 a.m., 10/22 at 9 a.m., 10/22 at 3 p.m., 10/24 at 10 a.m., 10/24 at 3 p.m. Airs 10/26 at 4 p.m. and 10/27 at 5 a.m.
Thursday, October 24th
This week is U.S. Media Literacy Week! The mission of the week is to highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country.
Remember PizzaGate: when headlines stated that Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza shop in Washington, D.C.?
Fake news. But a lot of people believed it, at least for a little while. Then there’s the terminology, “Fake News”, being bandied about by politicians to denounce real news. Why?
There’s a major misunderstanding between fake news, truthful news, and biased news. It’s a lot to digest, especially for a young person who may have only recently begun reading the news.
Look at these four headlines. Can you tell which media outlet wrote them? Do you think your students could tell?
- “More than half the House of Representatives support impeachment inquiry”
- “Mike Pompeo Blasts House Democrats’ Impeachment Inquiry: ‘Silly Gotcha Game’”
- “White House Unveils Lightly Edited Memorandum Of U.S. Constitution That Specifically Declares Trump’s Innocence”
- “Pelosi Announces Impeachment Inquiry of President Trump”
There are luckily a lot of activities available for teaching students how to tell the difference between truth and bias.
This video from Common Sense Media gives five tips for spotting fake news.
(If YouTube is blocked in your school, you can find the video here: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/5-ways-to-spot-fake-news)
These infographics were created by #1: EasyBib (a Chegg service), #2: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and #3: eavi Media Literacy for Citizenship. (Right click each and open hyperlinks for full versions)
This online article from EasyBib tells us how to spot fake news: http://www.easybib.com/guides/10-ways-to-spot-a-fake-news-article/
But what about understanding biases in media?
ad fontes media posts an interactive chart showing the reliability and general biases of the most popular media outlets. They include information about their ranking methodology and they update it regularly as things change. Find it here: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sources/
Students can take this News Lit Quiz by the News Literacy Project:
This poster is designed to help students understand opinion writing:
And when you’re completely overwhelmed, and tired from trying to navigate it all, you can always choose to watch https://newsforkids.net/ (which was created by a teacher), Teen Kids News: http://www.teenkidsnews.com (just be careful of the ads), https://www.cnn.com/cnn10 (news explained in 10 minutes),
…
or wind down watching this clip of 5-year-old Noah Ritter on his local news in 2014:
The state of education during the industrial revolution in the 17th century is examined.
3/60 minute programs airs Mondays 3 a.m. beg inning 10/14.
- #2 – The late Andrew Coulson, education policy analyst, travels to Michigan’s prestigious Cranbrook high school, one of the top ten private high schools in America, in Push or Pull, the second episode of School Inc. Cranbrook and other excellent private schools in America typically don’t “scale up” to replicate their excellence on a larger stage and serve more students. So, is there some place else where scaling up excellence is happening? The answer is “yes” and it is in America’s Charter schools, but when charter schools are seen to compete with public schools, there can be trouble ahead. From those involved we hear how the Sabis school, tremendously successful in Springfield, Massachusetts, was prevented from operating in nearby Brocton because a school superintendent decided such competition was simply not in the best interest of his public school district. For six years the American Indian Charter School, part of a small network of California charter schools, ranked among the top middle schools in California. However, in the spring of 2013 the Oakland Public School District voted to shut down all three American Indian Schools because the charter school had chosen to use its own special education services and not those controlled by the state, which resulted in a loss of revenue to the public school system. Not every story has a negative outcome. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the city’s vibrant charter schools came to the rescue and provided the facilities and services other schools needed to get back on their feet. Finally, Coulson travels to South America for a comparison of how the success of Chile’s wine industry sets the scene for the growth of the country’s successful private school networks. Chile’s private schools consistently outperform schools in all other Latin American countries, but trouble is always on the horizon. Still, the private school networks of Chile provide a note of optimism in Coulson’s journey to discover the secrets of School Inc.
- #3 – Ten years after Chile reformed its education system, Sweden followed suit. It is the first stop in Forces and Choices, episode three of School Inc. All private schools in Sweden are now fully tax supported and parents can choose between these so-called “free” schools and the local public schools. The global journey continues, visiting highly successful private schools in Sweden, London, and India, where the resistance to education as a business has lessened. The late Andrew Coulson, senior fellow of education policy at Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is joined by the administrators of these schools to examine the secrets of their success, learning that some of India’s highly successful private schools serve eager poor students and parents at little more than a dollar a week. School Inc. comes full circle to conclude in the English countryside where the Industrial Revolution began. Then as now, Coulson suggests, education was perhaps the only field in which successful entrepreneurship was not celebrated. He concludes: “What if we allowed all education entrepreneurs to put their own money on the line in an effort to better serve us, gaining or losing just as entrepreneurs do in other fields. And what if we made sure that everyone had access to that wide-open market place. Would we then see excellence scale-up in education?”