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The Salisbury High School No Place For Hate group videos have been posted on the Great American No Bull Challenge website! The students have worked super hard for this, and we are very, very proud of them! Please visit the links below and vote! Our students could with a $5000 scholarship. Thank you for your support!
This first video is the video the group did together: it is titled “Right your Wrong”
http://nobull.votigo.com/contests/showentry/1036691
The second video is the video Carly Fortunato created: It is titled “What would you do?”
Innovative High Schools Across PA Selected to Participate in 2012 Media Literacy Program
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r. Wetherhold, media teacher at Salisbury High School, and the new media program are recent recipients of a competitive grant from the PA organization, Drug Free Pennsylvania. Salisbury is excited for the opportunity for our students to participate in this media literacy program! Drug Free Pennsylvania recently released the press release below, sharing more about this exciting opportunity. Congratulations to Mr. Wetherhold for a successful grant application and involving Salisbury High School in this important educational opportunity.
Harrisburg, PA (March 5, 2012) – Drug Free Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth’s statewide non-profit organization dedicated to reducing substance abuse in schools, homes and businesses announced today the winners of the the first annual Media Literacy High School grant program.
The Media Literacy High School program provides funding, technical assistance and collaboration opportunities for high schools to implement a student-centered, peer-to-peer media literacy initiative focused on examining and understanding the impact of media messages on drug and alcohol use among teenagers. High schools from across Pennsylvania competed for three slots in the inaugural program. The selection committee chose the following schools for particpiation in the 2012 Media Literacy High School program:
Salisbury High School
Salisbury High School serves approximately 500 students and is part of the Salisbury Township School District located in the Allentown area of the Lehigh Valley. The school offers an intimate setting in which students can often experience small classes and work on unique projects. These include the student media lab and broadcasting center which is used to produce daily and weekly programming and to explore the psychology and social impact of media through programs such as full-year elective courses in media messages, media management and media studies.
Souderton Area High School
Souderton Area High School serves more than 2,000 students in a rural and suburban community north of Philadelphia in Montgomery and Bucks counties. Media development and engagement has been a critical part of the high school program of studies for many years, and video production electives are some of the most popular courses offered at SAHS, culminating in an annual school film festival. The high school also allows students to explore current issues and career interests through an innovative 5th Block that provides dedicated schedule time each week.
Tacony Academy Charter School
Located in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia, Tacony Academy Charter School was established in 2009 as a city-wide charter school and currently serves 738 students from across the City of Phildelphia. Cornerstones of the school’s educational program include a commitment to STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) college preparatory learning and development of leadership skills. The school teaches a comprehensive elective course for students in media literacy and integrates media issues into academic, intellectual and research-based learning opportunities.
These three schools will implement a student media literacy high school initiative during spring 2012 and participate in online and peer-to-peer education and dialogue, guided by principles and ‘best practices’ established by the work of Renee Hobbs, PhD, founder of the Media Education Lab, and Brian Primack, M.D. of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
The Media Literacy High School program continues and expands upon the accomplishments of Drug Free Pennsylvania’s successful “The Media Straight Up!” program for middle schools and the highly recognized Media Literacy PSA Contest program, sponsored annually by Drug Free Pennsylvania in partnership with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Counterdrug Joint Task Force.
Funding for the Media Literacy High School program was made possible by the suppport of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
For more information, go to www.medialiteracypa.org/highschool
TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 03/26/2012
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CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology
“CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.”
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Pros and Cons of Social Media in the Classroom
“There’s an ongoing debate about the role social media should play in education. Advocates point out the benefits that social media provides for today’s digital learners while critics call for regulation and for removing social media from classrooms. Finding a middle ground has become a challenge.”
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“In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.” This feeds the argument that we are teaching students to be consumers and not content creators or producers.
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SunAeon allows you to explore the solar system, look at each of the planets up close and see how they move relative to each other. The planets are rendered beautifully although there are no moons (even our moon). I hope these will be added later. There’s also no additional information about any of the planets.
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Videos to help you rethink education, learning, & school
“Real learning requires lots and lots of doing, not just listening. One does not learn to play the music — or math or science for that matter — only by sitting in a chair and listening. One learns by doing and figuring things out. I do not provide any answers or insights here, but I wanted to point you to several presentations and interviews below concerning education and schooling that I have found particularly relevant and stimulating.”
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Education Week: Blended Learning Sports Variety of Approaches
“As schools mix online instruction and face-to-face learning, educators are identifying promising hybrid approaches”
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Consumption vs. Production | Blend My Learning
The “consumption vs. production” dichotomy is an important one for us to consider. Too much of what we currently do, with and without technology, is focused on consumption and not enough on production. Good blog post to prompt deeper thinking about this lens.
Seventh Grade Students Correspond with Students in Joplin, MO
Salisbury Press Photo
Earlier this year, Salisbury Middle School English Teacher, Mrs. Beth Prokesch developed a project for her students to collaborate and develop friendships with students in Joplin, MO following a devastating tornado.
Read more about the Salisbury/Joplin project in an article that appeared in the March 7, 2012 edition of the Salisbury Press. Thank you to Salisbury Press editor Debbie Galbraith for permission to post this article on the TL2014.org website.
TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 03/12/2012
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Creative Problem Solving – Download Free Content from TED on iTunes
“These speakers from TED assess the prevailing model of education reform by answering the critical question: How do we create educational environments that maximize how students harness their creative and problem-solving potential?”
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As Digital Tools Abound, Help Kids Self-Regulate | MindShift
“It’s not a stretch to say that technology will continue to change the educational landscape. As students become more immersed in technology around them, self-regulation will become an essential life skill to cultivate.”
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The free stop-motion movie maker.
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TPACK and Common Core – Classroom 2.0 LIVE!
Online webinar presenting ideas about how the TPACK framework can help teachers implement the common core standards.
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Teenage Brains – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
This NG article captures the essence of contemporary brain research regarding teens.
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Educate Parents About Social Networking and Community | Common Sense Media
“Kids are spending lots of time on social networks, and parents are concerned about what’s happening on these sites. The following resources are designed to help your school provide social networking guidance to parents in whatever format works for you: in person, through mailings, or on your website.”
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Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum | Common Sense Media
“Common Sense Media offers this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum to help educators empower their students and their school communities to be safe, responsible, and savvy as they navigate this fast-paced digital world.”
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Evernote for Educators – LiveBinder
An extensive collection of uses for Evernote in education.
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An extensive collection of ideas on how to use Evernote in education.
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How Computer Games Help Children Learn | MindShift
“Epistemic games are computer games that are essentially about learning to think in innovative ways. They’re designed to be pedagogical tools for the digital age where the player learns to think like professionals by playing a simulated game of such professions as management, engineering, journalism or urban planning.”
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What Content Are You Filtering? #tcea2012
“”Censoring doesn’t protect students, it hinders the development of the ability to choose and react appropriately while they’re still supervised” Gail Lovely (glovely) via Twitter (02/18/2012)”
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The Google Search Stories Video Creator allows you to create a short video about the searches that you perform on Google. To create your video you enter your search terms, select some background music, and let the creator render a video for you.
