This day-long event with 26 teachers from
the School District of Philadelphia was hosted at Temple University's
Tech Center and developed by the staff of the Media Education Lab.
Lectures, discussion and activities were built around issues and themes
from Byron Hurt's documentary Beyond Beats and Rhymes.
Activities included linking communication arts to "new literacies"
education, discussing representations of gender and violence in
hip-hop, applying key media literacy questions in analysis of various
media texts and in media production simulations, bringing student
tastes in pop culture into the classroom, and more.