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• 1 2015-09-22T08:35:30-07:00 By Any Media Necessary webinar 4 plain 2015-10-15T08:28:44-07:00 On September 23, 2014, Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics (MAPP) participated in an NWP Educator Innovator webinar, By Any Media Necessary. Educators Paul Richardson, from Kansas City, Missouri, and Sarabeth Leitch, from Portland, Oregon, joined facilitator Paul Oh and MAPP team members Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, Sangita Shresthova, and Liana Gamber-Thompson in a discussion of what embracing a “By Any Media Necessary” approach in the classroom looks like on the ground.
  
  The participants discussed the following framing questions during the webinar:
  • What are your thoughts on the importance of integrating the following into the classroom:
    • Peer-based learning
    • Media production
    • Popular culture
    • Storytelling
       
  • ​Do you think you’ve been successful in doing so? Why/why not? If so, do you think engaging in these practices empowered your students overall? 
     
  • Can you think of an example when you tied some of these themes/approaches to civic or political topics in your classrooms? What worked, what would you have done differently in retrospect?
     
  • Drawing on your experiences in the MAPP summer workshop, how could you envision the scalar platform enabling you to integrate these elements and practices into the classroom?
     
  • What are some of the challenges you have encountered when trying to implement these elements/practices in the classroom? Examples might include: lack of resources, your own level of knowledge when it comes to media or pop culture, lack of time, lack of school support, etc.
  After the webinar, Liana Gamber-Thompson published a blog post on NWP’s Digital Is platform, called “Truth-telling in the Age of Digital Media,” which incorporated insights from the webinar and the author’s experiences participating in one of the workshops featured on BAMN.