{"data":{"ID":589,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446419200,"CreatorID":477,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"From the Horse's Mouth: Talking with Kids about Influential Media","Handle":"from_the_horse-s_mouth--talking_with_kids_about_influential_media","ShortDescription":"In a follow-up to \"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media\" (Educon '14, '15), this conversation opens up a dialogue with a diverse panel of students from SLA regarding the media they consume and find influential. Hearing from this group of active media consumers will help teachers develop engaging educational approaches and materials with, rather than, for their students.","Description":"At a base level of media consumption we need to consider \u201cWhat are we watching? (or listening to, playing, etc.).\u201d This is engagement in its simplest form, and gets us to think about the encoded messages that generally wash over us without question or interpretation. Asking ourselves \u201cWhy are we watching this?\u201d begins the process of thinking about the constructs of media and how they serves our needs. As new technologies have lowered the barriers to creation the framing question, \u201cWhat are we making?\u201d asks us to think about the elements identified in the curate stage and how they work within our own creations. \u201cWhy are we making this?\u201d helps us look at our own creations from a more critical perspective with greater understanding of production, our relationship to media and the encoding\/decoding process.\r\n\r\nAs teachers \"Who is this for?\" is a given, but how much time do we spend truly considering the audience? Are they part of this curation and creation? If so, how? If not, why? How well do we fully grasp the additional layer of understanding new platforms of distribution our students are predominantly using for media consumption? This conversation aims to gain a better understanding of what it is like from the other side of the lecture, assignment and project.","Link":["https:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org","http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/influentialmedia"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media.\r\n\r\nAfter engaging in conversation with this panel of students, our attendees will have the unique opportunity of being \"schooled\" in the ways of modern media consumption, interaction, interpretation and creation.  \r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools aims to inspire critical and creative approaches to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman","Josh Weisgrau and a panel of SLA students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA","Friends Central","Rough Cut Schools","Rough Cut Productions"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":477,"AdditionalComments":"This is a direct extension of a previous conversation (Empowering Critical Relationships with Media- Educon '14, '15), which was also proposed for '16.\r\n\r\nThis conversation, \"From the Horse's Mouth: Talking with Kids about Influential Media\" will be directly used to craft a new article for Edutopia. So, if there is only room for Rough Cut to have one conversation during sessions this year, we would prefer this to be the one.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}