Ithaca College Alumni, Kelsey Greene ('12), presented on behalf of Project Look Sharp at the NAAEE conference in Ottawa, Ontario, on Thursday, October 9 from 2:15pm to 3:45 in the Ottawa Convention Centre. In her interactive workshop she used Project Look Sharp’s sustainability curriculum kits to model how educators in formal and informal learning sectors can teach about relevant sustainability issues through deconstruction and production of diverse media texts.
Project Look Sharp offers two kits on sustainability. They included: Media Constructions of Sustainability and Media Constructions of Sustainability: Fingerlakes. Each kit provides multiple lesson plans that explore how sustainability has been presented in the media. Each kit created by Project Look Sharp incorporates media literacy and critical thinking. This session encouraged learners to become active agents of change in their community through media production.
Kelsey Greene interned with Project Look Sharp for two semesters while attending Ithaca College. One of her larger tasks as an intern was working on the Finger Lakes sustainability kit. Kelsey went to the 2011 NAAEE conference in Raleigh with Chris and Sox Sperr; two staff members of Project Look Sharp. Kelsey has continued to work in the media literacy field since graduating from Ithaca College in 2012 and is currently attending the University at Buffalo for my M.Ed in Education.
Project look Sharp is Ithaca College's Media Literacy Initiative. Project Look Sharp supports the integration of critical thinking through media literacy in school curriculum and teaching. They do this through developing and providing lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for educators at all education levels. The purpose of media literacy education is to help individuals of all ages develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression they need to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens in today’s world.
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