Reel Life Education
This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Reel Life Education.
Non-fiction Common Core aligned curriculum centered around youth-created films. Focused on: CCLS 9th grade ELA unit in Literary Non-Fiction and essay writing.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Nombre
Bridget
Apellido
Jordan
URL en Twitter
http:/www.twitter.com/reellives
URL en Facebook
http:/facebook.com/reellives
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
Reel Lives
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, NY, Brooklyn, Kings County
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Estados Unidos, NY, New York City, New York County
Tu organización es
Sin fines de lucro
Tu rol en la Educación
Administrador, Programa después de la escuela, Entrenador, Maestro.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Pública (gratuita)
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
1-5 años
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Innovación
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando entre 1-5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Schools around the country are working this year to align their curricula to the Common Core Learning Standards. In particular they for an emphasis on the reading of informational texts. And it is particularly challenging to find highly engaging, student-created informational texts that truly examine the perspectives and concerns of young people.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
The Reel Lives Curriculum helps teachers develop a transformative learning environment in their classrooms, where students emerge from the six week experience with a stronger sense of self and self agency, demonstrated ability to use empathetic language in conversation and a clear understanding of the way they can advocate for themselves through new media. Paring non-fiction texts with youth-created documentaries provides educators with a highly engaging, student-centered access point that is also aligned with the new Common Core standards.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
When class begins students will be presented with a student film from the Reel Lives library. The class will engage in guided discussion questions which focus on inferencing skills relating the video to an activating schema (text to self, text to world, text to text). The Reel Lives targets the development of empathy by applying inferencing skills and activating schema. Students will be asked to explicitly relate their experiences and their impressions of the world around them with those of the filmmaker. Subsequently, direct instruction will deliver content on the human rights issue typified by the film while scaffolding argumentation/essay writing skills. Students will construct arguments about human rights violations that they see in the world around them by siting specific textual evidence using mobile apps, web-based materials, sample texts (literary non-fiction) and mind mapping apps such as Popplet. The Reel Lives curriculum makes a difference because it takes a student-centered approach to examining literary non-fiction and human rights. By narrowing the distance between the students and subject matter we facilitate connections while scaffolding those connections through interpretive practices and media literacy.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
No one in the NYC Department of Education is tackling the new Common Core Nonfiction ELA requirements using youth-created films as the basis for the six week lesson. TED is trying to bring TED talk to the classroom. However, the content is not student-centered nor is it a part of a comprehensive curriculum. In addition, organizations like Reel Works and Educational Video Center who produce student made films are not engaging these films potential to engage young people in Common Core based ELA tasks. At this point there is nothing like the Reel Lives curriculum available.
Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.
Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Non-fiction Common Core aligned curricula centered around youth-created films. Focus on:CCLS 9th grade ELA unit on literary non-fiction.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
By learners, for learners. It is very unusual to have student work as the center point, not product of a curricula.
Impacto social
Esta presentación se trata de
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
We have screened our first 25 films at over 20 community screenings to hundreds of viewers across NYC, and to over 17,000 viewers through our social networks online. Our youth-produced films reach other young people in a way that typical non-fiction texts do not. We have workshopped our current curricula at two partner high schools to over 1000 students with huge success. This success prompted us to think bigger! Because the topics of our films are current and diverse it is an amazing opportunity to present the often difficult six-week nonfiction section in a fresh, new and impactful way.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
Since our curriculum is aligned with the national Common Core Standards and available online it can easily be used by any Department(s) of Education across the US and beyond. Our goal is to begin with partner schools within the NYC DOE and grow rapidly beyond that. The documentaries move past the informative and become the driving force behind educating students on social issues, cultural understanding, and progressive thinking.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
Have three partner schools using the curriculum.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Secure funding for Interactive Designer to work with Reel Life Education Team.
Tarea 2
Create beta site within three months so it can be tested.
Tarea 3
Launch curriculum during 2012-2012 school year with three partner schools.
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Employ marketing and media strategies to raise awareness about curriculum
Tarea 2
Establish contact and partnerships with at least six other Departments of Education around the US
Tarea 3
Gather data from partner schools on technical as well as curricular difficulties in order to improve 2.0 version of curriculum
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
After attending a Reel Lives film premier at The Paley Center for Media I was struck by the power of the films. I found myself laughing, crying and communicating with strangers about my experience watching these films. I remember speaking with one of the Reel Lives students, Nabila, and asking her what she intended to do with her film now that she had finally completed it. To which she shrugged and said, "I don't know, I hope to take it to some festivals, but I really don't know." It was then that I realized the profound impact that these films could have on other students and how perfectly they could fit into the context of the 9th grade ELA unit on Literary Non-Fiction. What better way to engage the perspective of young people than through the perspectives of young people.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
Reel Lives has a vast network of partners from universities such as NYU, The New School and Bank Street; numerous NYC Department of Education high schools and middle schools including Manhattan Comprenhensive Night and Day HS, Brooklyn International, Manhattan International; museums including The Paley Center for Media, American Folk Art Museum and Museo del Barrio; and other non-profits including Lower East Side Girls Club.
Beyond that the 'Reel Life Education Team' has amazing contacts at the local, national and federal level.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
Our team consists of veteran teachers, media and literacy coaches, youth media experts and a director of media and digital learning at the university level. Each of the five team members has at least one masters, if not two, and one PhD in the relevant fields of education and media.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
In order to develop the online version of the curriculum we have we need funding. After it is developed it will sustain itself through revenue. In addition, marketing strategists would help Reel Lives to reach the largest audience.
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