{"data":{"ID":361,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383765181,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media","Handle":"Empowering_Critical_Relationships_with_Media","ShortDescription":"Your students are spending more time consuming media than any activity other than sleep.  This conversation will center on how understanding and applying a hierarchy of consumption, critical analysis, and creation of media can help teachers determine the most beneficial uses of and approaches to media in the classroom.","Description":"For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 guidelines about children\u2019s screen time have changed to acknowledge a distinction between \u201centertainment\u201d screen time which should be limited, and educational and \"active\" screen time that can be beneficial. There is a place and means in every grade and subject area to help students become more thoughtful consumers and creators of media. This conversation will leverage the collective wisdom and varied experiences of the attendees to help us all better define empowering media experiences for our students.","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media. \r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools hopes to inspire a critical and creative approach to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman and Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rough Cut Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org","josh@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Doug teaches Video and Photography here at SLA and founded Rough Cut Productions, SLA\u2019s student media production crew. Josh teaches Digital Literacy and is an Instructional Technologist at Friends\u2019 Central School.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}