Boston Civic Media: Design, Technology, Social Impact

This session will focus on how fun, game based interventions can create powerful student-centered, maker-based learning experiences that harness simple web based modes of communication to teach about expression, agency and voice. The interactive workshop will feature the digital literacy game initiative, Emerging Citizens, a web based platform consisting of three multiplayer game experiences wherein students create and critique civic media. Each Emerging Citizens game incorporates content that encourages students to engage with culturally and politically relevant topics that affect their daily lives while focusing on a specific 21st digital modality (Hashtags, Memes, and Hyperlinking).

Through playing and reflective dialog on each Emerging Citizens game, our session will focus on how game-based interventions fit within the larger context of media literacy discourse, specifically focusing on the risks and rewards of giving students the power to drive conversation through creation. The session will share how game based methodologies in the classroom can engage students’ expression, creation, and sharing of civic media that contributes positively to daily life.

Come learn the process for building the Emerging Citizens platform, and the learning guides that accompany each game. Participate to discuss the digital literacies taught specifically hashtags, memes, and hyperlinking, and how Emerging Citizens is implemented in classrooms, community groups, and after school programs.   

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