MWP & DOE Present:

2013 Saturday Sessions Workshop Series (3)

(2013 Saturday Sessions Workshop Flyer)

Workshop #3

Media, Common Core and Social Justice

March 9th, 2013

Minnesota Academic Standards: English Language Arts K-12 2010

• Standards and related resources found of DOE website
• Common Core Appendices related to ELA Language Arts
• Appendix A: Information about complexity and rigor
• Appendix B. Text Exemplars
• Appendix C: Student writing samples
• Common Core Curriculum Maps: Provides integrated curriculum units that demonstrate best practices incorporating the Common Core Standards in grades K through 12.

Opening Writing Prompt

• "I'm a Mac and I have a dirty secret" (1:45) - conflict minerals in computers (parody of Mac vs PC commercials)  SEE ALSO:
• Congo Coltan War: PSA (4:47) -  remix video using found media to discuss a social issue.  Featured at JUMP. Made by undergad student in TX.   
  
• PROMPT: how might you use media to engage students in issues of local and global justice?

Power Point Presentations/Handouts from March 9th workshop

Stephanie Rollag -- University of Minnesota (former 7th grade teachers)

• Handout -- Being Aware: Social Justice Resources for Teaching
  

Maria Theissen -- 3rd Grade, Concord Elementary, Edina

• Writing for Social Justice (class website)

Ann Lindsey -- Jackson Middle School, Anoka-Hennepin

• Ann's link
• The Fear Filter -- One page intro to presentation
  

Jessie Dockter Tierney & Molly Vasich -- Washburn High School, Minneapolis

• The Other Project - class activity
  
• Molly Vasich Class website

•   Click here to download slide show. 
  

Online sources for Media, CCSS & Social Justice

• Schoology - free course management site -- similar to facebook