TTT#345 Detroit Future Schools and Reaching out to Boston
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2013-04-18

Educators from the Detroit Future Schools program  http://schools.detroitfuture.org  will share their experiences attempting to re-invent the practice and purpose of education. They will offer transformative processes that they use in classrooms along with student-generated media projects. Furthermore, they will share how the DFS network is growing and refining its vision. Join the conversation and leave with replicable teaching practices, ideas for school-community interactions, and links to further resources, like this by Danielle Filipiak on the National Writing Project's Digital Is: "My Homeland:" A Connected Learning Media exchange project between South Korean and Detroit HS Students http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3842

Look who will be joining us:
Ammerah Saidi graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a B.A. in English and Psychology certified as a secondary teacher. For four years, Ammerah taught in Detroit, Michigan and for one year in Al Hada, Saudi Arabia at an international school. She graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Masters in School Leadership and is a coordinator for the Detroit Future Schools Program.

Daniel Filipiak is currently a doctoral student in English Education at Teachers College-Columbia University. She is interested in the multiple ways that students use literacy to navigate the hybrid and evolving contexts/landscapes around them. She has a decade of teaching experience and have also served in roles such as: teacher organizer, consultant, NWP Urban Sites leadership team member, school board member, co-founder of the Detroit Educator Network, and member of the Detroit Future Media program, a digital justice initiative in Detroit looking to reinvent the practice and purpose of educaiton.  

 Danielle's resource where she describes ths project work: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3400
 http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3400  Using Media to Reclaim the Hood: Essential Questions and Powerful English Pedagogy  
Student work examples are here: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3405
Vdeo is here: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3842
 http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/2740  I Love My City: Youth as Problem Solvers and Creators in 21st Century Classrooms  
 Western International High School Walkout  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8b311afSYY

Come learn more about connected learning, city as school, using media in justice-based education and more!

There's room for you in the Hangout-on-Air.
Just let us know and we'll include you in the core converation. Or watch the webcast live and join the chat at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt  Wed. 4/17 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/O0KGJ

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