Activate and Amplify Student Voice

Introduction

Inspire students with meaningful media making challenges around topics they are passionate about. Students will be heard and contribute to the national conversation. Below is a list of resources to help Activate and Amplify Student Voice.

Resources

Challenges

Returning to School - give voice to student perspectives of this complicated school year
Race and Justice Video Diary - speak out about racism and injustice
Pop culture that “made me feel seen” - reflect on current pop culture role models, events and art
Returning to School - express your feelings about school
Young Climate Activists - interview a young person who is working to address climate issues

Projects (intermediate)

No Labels Attached - confront stereotypes
On Our Minds Podcast - address the stigma around mental health
Education's Big Debates - investigate issues of fairness and equity
Power In Numbers - tell the story of a social movement in your community

Lesson Plans (all levels)

Use these lessons to help students identify a story that motivates them.

Demonstrate technical support related to media production (e.g., broadcast, video, web, mobile).

CCTC AR-AV 3.1: Demonstrate how to repair and service transmitting and receiving systems.
CCTC AR-AV 3.2: Employ knowledge of wireless and wired transmission systems.
CCTC AR-AV 3.3: Demonstrate installation of cabling for audio/video productions.
CCTC AR-AV 3.4: Demonstrate the installation of a wireless audio/video system.
CCTC AR-AV 3.5: Demonstrate how to troubleshoot audio/video system operations.
CCTC AR-AV 4.1: Apply knowledge of the critical elements in designing a production to activities in the pre-production stage.
CCTC AR-AV 4.2: Identify the basic functions and resources for editing an audio/video production.
CCTC AR-AV 4.3: Apply computer-based development in video production and editing, with an emphasis on digital technology.

Demonstrate the use of basic tools and equipment used in audio, video and film production.

CCTC AR 2.1: Assess workplace conditions with regard to safety and health.

Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. (ISTE)

Demonstrate writing processes used in journalism and broadcasting media.

CCTC AR-JB 2.1: Demonstrate how to cultivate sources for stories.
CCTC AR-JB 2.2: Demonstrate how to obtain information to use in writing a story.
CCTC AR-JB 2.3: Develop written stories for print and broadcast.
CCTC AR-JB 2.4: Demonstrate how photographs support the development of stories.
CCTC AR-JB 2.5: Employ knowledge of the similarities and differences among editorial, feature, and news writing styles.
CCTC AR-JB 2.6: Define the terminology associated with journalism and broadcasting.
CCTC AR-JB 2.7: Develop a complete radio project.
CCTC AR-JB 2.8: Develop a complete television project.

Speaking and Listening - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Writing - Research to Build and Present Knowledge

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.8: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Reading - Craft and Structure

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

Reading - Key Ideas and Details

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

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