What's New at Project Look Sharp | Media Education Lab

As we start the school and academic year, we are thrilled to have the founder of Project Look Sharp, Dr. Cyndy Scheibe, to discuss how Project Look Sharp's website provides a plethora of resources to critically analyze media texts for students in grades K-12 and post-secondary courses. In this session, Cyndy will introduce how to use the website and then showcase the Project Look Sharp approach to constructivist media decoding. Then participants will be able to explore the site and discuss in breakout rooms the implications for their practice. The session will culminate with a Q&A by participants.

Project Look Sharp website: https://www.projectlooksharp.org

Date: Monday, September 2, 2024

Time: 12pm EDT | 5pm BST | 9:30pm IST

About the Host:
Cyndy Scheibe is cofounder and executive director of Project Look Sharp at Ithaca College, where she is also a Dana professor of psychology, teaching courses in child and adolescent development, media literacy, and media effects; she also coordinates the college's interdisciplinary media literacy minor. She was a founding board member of the National Association for Media Literacy Education and coauthored the association's Core Principles of Media Literacy Education. Her publications on media literacy education include Teaching Students to Decode the World: Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum (ASCD, 2022) coauthored with Chris Sperry. She has a master's degree in communications and a PhD in developmental psychology, both from Cornell University.

Please get in touch with us if you want to host future Media Club meetings to discuss a cool book, podcast, video or any media related to our interests.

Yonty Friesem, Executive Director, Media Education Lab yonty@MediaEducationLab.com