Ithaca College

Project Look Sharp is excited to announce that Cyndy Scheibe and Chris Sperry were featured at the 2017 National Association of Media Literacy Educators Conference, “Engaging Citizens, Building Community”. The conference was held on June 26-28th at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL.

Cyndy and Chris led and moderated a wide variety of workshops and presentations at this important biennial national conference:

• Media Literacy and Health: Building a Dynamic Community to Change the Landscape of K-12 Health through Media Literacy (Scheibe)
• Media Inquiry That Teaches Students How to Question Their World (Scheibe/Sperry)
• Critical Media Literacy & Environmental Justice (Sperry)
• History Communication in a Multimedia Landscape (Scheibe/Moderator)
• The Contextual Approach to News Literacy: Facilitating Engagement by Learning about Media Systems and Institutions (Scheibe/Moderator)
• Pedagogies of Persistence: Civic Media in the Teaching and Learning of Everyday Activism in Democratic Life (Sperry/Moderator)
• Using Media & Media Literacy to Develop Agency (Sperry/Moderator)

Read the full program descriptions on Project Look Sharp's Blog.

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.