About the Project
According to Pew Research, the average teenager spends 7.7 hours a day on screens – outside of school. Yet media and digital literacy skills are unevenly applied, determined by who your teacher is and where you go to school. To help counteract this phenomenon, students in this fellowship created open educational resources (OER) geared toward secondary media literacy education. Working alongside mentors, students engaged in both primary and secondary research to determine what hurdles teenagers face in increasingly digital learning and social environments. Questions that drove their research agenda included: what do you wish you had been taught about social media before you signed up for your first account? and how can teenagers engage in civic awareness online even before they reach voting age?
Mentors
Emily Bush; Sarah Stevenson
Fellows
Jorie Fawcett, Madelina Huffman, Karan Mirpuri, Lauren Shim
Project
Fellows created digital learning modules that addressed a media literacy topic of their choosing with teenagers as the intended audience. Lessons are posted in the OER Commons, so that they can reach a large audience of educators: Fawcett, Huffman, Mirpuri, Shim.