Bare Fiction Prize 2015 for Poetry, Flash Fiction & Short Story. 1st prize of £500 in each category. Judges Jo Bell (poetry), Richard Skinner (flash fiction), Paul McVeigh (short story).
by Emma Whitford, Jason Feifer, & Lauren Schwartzberg
"One of the perks of three-dimensional printing is objects custom-produced just for you: insoles tailored to your bunions, earbuds that manage to stay in your ears, necklaces that replicate an heirloom lost on the Titanic. The appeal of such personalized — yet affordable and speedily available — products is one reason the 3-D-print market is projected to be worth $16.2 billion by 2018. The Brooklyn-based 3-D brand MakerBot just opened a 17,000-square-foot manufacturing center at Industry City. And New York is suddenly hopping with stores and makers that specialize in 3-D-printed fashion, objets, and items that are actually useful, along with classes to teach you how to operate a 3-D printer of your own and spit out a pair of bespoke bike pedals or one-of-a-kind lipstick from your living room."
The question of who makes the media matters, in part because all of us are limited by our own experiences. I have only ever experienced the world as a white woman, and that is a different experience than if I were African-American or male, which barely scratches the surface when it comes to all the things I am not and will never be. So when the controls of a mass media corporation roll up to a group of people who all look the same, can we be surprised by a lack of variety in media narratives? How can mainstream media be expected to innovate in an atmosphere of sameness?
Fortunately, there are more efforts now to bring traditionally marginalized communities into the fields of media and technology. Nonprofits abound which focus in getting girls, low-income youth or people of color into coding, robotics and various STEM fields. Diversifying voices in media is a step in diversifying media content, but it is only that – one step. As Sonia Livingstone, professor at the London School of Economics, said in a 2014 report, “Coding is a great idea but it’s not enough. Decoding today’s media - to recognise misleading and exploitative content, to appreciate what is available and to grasp the emerging opportunities - doesn’t come automatically or naturally. This is a time to strengthen media education.” If we can’t teach people to identify misinformation or stereotypes and demand better from media, then the same forces that have contributed to our current lack of diversity will keep their stranglehold on power and popular narrative. Harmful media messaging must be called out for it to end, and the producers behind that content need to understand that it’s no longer acceptable.
At least two Fridays a month this school year, we’ll be posting films we think will inspire powerful conversations — and then inviting teenagers and teachers from around the world to have those conversations here, on the blog.
For this week's Top Picks List Friday, we are featuring websites and apps for making videos and animations. Teachers know that video making is a tried and true way to get kids engaged in building, demonstrating, and sharing knowledge. These apps and sites feature user-friendly tools and features...
It could be said that writing starts when the ballpoint hits the surface of paper, or when fingers tap the square-shaped keys of a keyboard, but I like to think that writing begins somewhere else.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP -- This week was the start of a new school year for many in Lackawanna County and for a group of students at Jefferson Elementary School, there's something new: instead of sittin...
Everyone tells stories: journalists, politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs. Conveying information in a coherent and compelling way is vital to success in the real world, and it’s our job as educators to prepare our students to share their ideas in effective ways.The emphasis is on empowering st
Whether you plan to teach “Watchman” or not, recent events in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, South Carolina and elsewhere make Harper Lee’s themes more relevant than ever. And the discovery of the novel, as well as the suggestion that it was an early draft of “Mockingbird,” make it a fascinating study in authorial intent and revision. As Ross Brenneman writes in Education Week, “Everything about this book is a gold mine for English teachers.”
Below are six ideas for teaching “Mockingbird” today, as well as many, many resources, new and old, for connecting Harper Lee and her work to the world around us.
SCRIVENER Learn how to use your writing software quickly and easily Here's some help to get you started See why I highly recommend Scrivener for your writing Watch a 15 minute video showing the basics of how to use Scrivener software, including how to save yourself time and money by creating and publishing your own Read More ...
The research is clear: knowledge of words is knowledge of the world.
So what does this mean for us as educators? If we want students to access increasingly complex grade level text, we must Increase student vocabulary, knowledge, and capacity. We’ve highlighted five tools below that are a means to that end.
Jim Lerman's insight:
Outstanding article that highlights 5 excellent digital tools to enhance students' literacy development.
This year we’re bringing back our popular annual editorial, vocabulary, poetry, rap and summer reading contests, but we’re also adding two new contests to the roster.
In the first, which we’ll announce in mid-September, students will be invited to create editorial cartoons. In the second, which we’ll run beginning in mid-October, students will be challenged to write reviews — whether of books, video games, concerts, restaurants or anything else The Times covers.
"In this recent webinar, Educator Innovator partner, hypothes.is, convened a group of educators and scholars who focused on the history of social writing and annotation practices more broadly and considered the possibilities for collaborative student annotation on the web and in today’s classroom."
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