Beyond The Textbook: Documentaries As Tools For Teaching

This essay was originally published in the Spring 2010 issue of POV Magazine. Excerpt: “Documentary has a critical role to play in education. The rapid advances in media technology have forced educators like myself to rethink notions of literacy and adapt our curricula accordingly. If students are watching, listening, and producing even more than they are reading, we must ensure they have critical frameworks for analysis. We can use documentaries to raise questions around voice, truth, ethics, and a range of themes relevant to the shifting literacies of the 21st Century.”

Lights, Camera, Action: Using Film and Graphic Novels To Explore Themes of Power and Social Control in the HS English Classroom

Read this essay in the latest issue of the Journal of Media Literacy Education, published online by the National Association of Media Literacy Education (www.namle.net).

Teachers Shake up Shakespeare with Digital Media

From Edutopia magazine: Rap and film bring the Bard's characters to life.