I am attending the 5th Annual AHA Film Festival in Effingham, IL. If you want to see real world application of learning across the curriculum, you need to see this! Read about it here:
http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/local/local_story_060124856.html
I like this quote from the article: “We have guests coming in from all over the country. The film festival is usually sold out. By the end, we have people calling up and saying, ‘You gotta get me a ticket!’” he said. “It’s wonderful that the communities support us and fill up a theater to watch kids’ homework, basically.
Joe Fatheree and co-teacher Craig Lindvahl have prepared these students well. Students also realize that they have a role to play in making this world a better place. Tonight we gathered a local youth center with students from high schools across the nation to discuss the United Nation's 8 millennium goals. These students are talking about how they can use their talents to make a difference.
Media literacy, authentic assessment, service learning---all right here, right now. I hope districts across the country will follow this successful model of making it real and making it count for our students and teachers. I am looking forward tomorrow to a film training workshop taught by the high school students. Then, it will be time to enjoy the festival. Joe Fatheree also has other projects. You can read about his No Barriers project here: http://www.nobarriersproject.com/ We can make a difference and it can start with one person and an idea!
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"Making it real and making it count"--what a great model for learning. Wish I'd had a chance to catch the festival and workshop. Sounds fantastic!
--Suzie (http://reinventingpbl.blogspot.com)
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