Each year, the Media Education Lab aims to fulfill its mission to improve the practice of media literacy education through research and community service. In the school year of 2009-2010, we succeeded in that goal once again. Download our final report here. Highlights of the year include:
Rachel "Roxy" LeCure (née Hobbs) is the English Department Chair and 8th grade English Teacher at Esperanza Academy Charter Middle School in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a B.A. in Anthropology and received an M.Ed. in Middle Grades Education from Chestnut Hill College. As an undergraduate, she was an instructor in the Powerful Voices for Kids program at Russell Byers Charter School.
Kristin Hokanson is an educational consultant and Director of Curriculum and Instruction as School Lane Charter School in Bensalem, PA. With her expertise in innovative use of technology for learning, she serves the Meda Education Lab as the Digital Learning Coach. Kristin Hokanson spent 20 years in public education as a teacher and HS technology integration specialist through Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future Initiative.
Â
Hobbs, Renee (2007). Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. New York: Teachers College Press.