STUDENTS VISIT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MEDIA EDUCATION LAB
(L to R: Louis Mazza, Meghan O’Donnell, Caleb Atias, Nicolette Gasiewski, Matt Pham, Marc Colon, Nicolette White, Kara Harper, Kasey McCauley, Angelica Cionci, Kim Kossovsky, Garrett Watson, Rokia Berte, Alexa Hicklin.) Photo: Kate Spiller
Friday, April 30
Students in Mr. Mazza’s Media Arts 2 class visited Temple University on Friday, where they participated in a class which analyzed the ethics and social implications of online video. The class, taught by Renee Hobbs, a professor at Temple and founder of the Media Education Lab, provided students with the analytical tools to examine the fluid relationship between author and audience in online video.
Renee Hobbs (top, left) wrote Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English (2007, Teachers College Press), the first large-scale empirical evidence of the impact of media literacy education on reading comprehension skills. Influenced by the work of John Dewey and Marshall McLuhan, her research uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the impact of media literacy education on student academic achievement.
After lunch students toured the T.E.C.H. Center and TV station.
