Cyndy Scheibe, Executive Director of Project Look Sharp, will present “Engaging Students and Inspiring Teachers with the Power of Inquiry-Based Constructivist Approaches and Multimedia Literacies” on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 1:15-2:30 p.m. at the 2015 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The presentation — which is sponsored by the NCTE Assembly SLAM! Studies in Literacies and Multimedia — is an interactive session that will demonstrate ways to support Common Core State Standards skills through collective reading and discussing and creating multimedia texts. Participants will gain an understanding of how to use inquiry-based constructivist media decoding in an English classroom by engaging in the constructivist analysis and close reading of multimedia content with examples from both fiction and nonfiction. Audience members will receive handouts and free online examples they can use immediately with any grade level.
“Today’s ELA teachers face increasing challenges as they work to engage a wide range of student learners in reading both fiction and nonfiction texts,” Scheibe said. “With so many new digital tools at our disposal and new approaches for integrating multimedia technologies into our teaching, we can effectively bridge the traditional world of print literacy with the creative and dynamic digital worlds in which our students live.”
NCTE is an organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Each year the NCTE Annual Convention draws thousands of educational professionals to participate in four days of professional learning programming. The 2015 NCTE Annual Convention will be held Nov. 19-22 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
For more information, you can email us at looksharp@ithaca.edu or call 607-274-3471. You can reach Cyndy Scheibe at scheibe@ithaca.edu.
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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