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The Dilemma of Copyright and Digital Texts
A guide to properly using copyrighted materials while respecting intellectual property through fair use practices.
Digital Civics Toolkit: 5 Resource Modules for Educators
The Digital Civics Toolkit, built on research from the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, organizes resources for engaging youth in the civic potentials of digital life. The toolkit is organized into five distinct modules that each capture a key practice…
Using the Film True Justice in Your Classroom
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality follows 30 years of the Equal Justice Initiative’s work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The Kunhardt Film Foundation has created lessons, engagement guides, and interviews to support educators in teaching the film…
Creative Writing and World-Building in Minecraft: Education Edition
The 10 Minecraft: Education Edition lessons built were co-created with the help of interested educators and youth; each was imagined as a playful interpretation of a concept familiar in English Language Arts, and each asks players to write and build in different ways.
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The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity
Collected resources and reflections from a discussion group which convened interested educators to come together to “play” with a set of ideas related to the intersections of AI and humanity in a supportive community.
Humanity. What Does it Mean to be Human?
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
Economics of AI
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
Algorithms & Justice
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
AI … What?!
The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity was organized by educators from The Western Pennsylvania Writing Project & The CMU CREATE Lab to support the exploration of the impact and implications of artificial intelligence and new technologies for…
Creating New Media
"What if you could develop your own news site that would appeal to your peers?" Former journalist and classroom teacher Mark Nepper provides an engaging project for students to grapple with what constitutes news, who is it for, and how would it be accessed.
Teaching Reading: A Semester of Inquiry
Antero Garcia and his undergraduate Teaching Reading class embark on a mutual inquiry into the ways reading is defined, enacted, and challenged within classroom spaces. Included are student presentations and reflections.
HERU: Hip Hop Literacy X Entertainment Justice = Young Digital Economies
Bryce Anderson-Small introduces his youth media literacy organization, the HERU, where youth develop through media literacy and digital media arts skills training. He explains how digital media arts allow young people to nurture their positive self-images and authentically tell their…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.