Election Prep Digital Stories

In this webinar, Brett Pierce will introduce and workshop three impactful and efficient digital storytelling projects that will help middle and high school students productively engage with the election process, even though most are not of age to vote. The focus on digital storytelling as the vehicle for creative and thoughtful engagement with the media onslaught that this election has triggered, is deliberate. Just like learning to write well increases your capacity to read well, so learning to create meaningful digital media increases your ability to smartly consume and understand the media around you. Digital storytelling is the most prevalent form of ‘writing’ for today’s students and this webinar will help you, the educator, to take this challenging content about the election into the students’ wheelhouse for a significantly deeper understanding of the mass of information swirling around them. 

Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

Time: 12PM EST | 5pm GMT | 10:30pm IST

Location: Register Here for the Zoom

Speaker - Brett Pierce

Brett is the founder and Executive Director of Meridian Stories, a Digital Storytelling nonprofit for middle and high schoolers that challenges students to develop and shoot creative digital narratives around core curricular goals. Brett recently authored his first book with Heinemann Publishing, Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom. Brett has spent much of his professional life at Sesame Workshop in New York City, serving as a Co-Executive Producer on media projects about literacy, math, science, and conflict-resolution for youth around the world. Most recently, Brett led the development and production of a radio game show – Who Are You? - targeting youth in the Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) about issues related to economic self-reliance. Brett has a BA from Kenyon College, and Masters Degrees from Middlebury College (English) and Columbia University (Education). He lives in Freeport, Maine.