ERIC Number: EJ1450508
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
EISSN: EISSN-2162-0725
Student Agency and the School News Broadcast
Ronald V. Morris; Denise Shockley
Childhood Education, v100 n6 p50-55 2024
Educators seek to foster civic engagement among the next generation through social studies. In pursuit of this goal, technology and social media strategies can be effective enticements. This article describes the community engagement demonstrated by students collaborating to present a weekly school news broadcast, making the transition from personal use of digital spaces to formal use for participatory civics. An eight-student core group participated in a middle school extracurricular program, where they created a script for the teleprompter and recorded themselves on video, which was aired in homerooms. Extracurricular social studies activities, such as this student-led news broadcast project, can provide a forum for students to pursue learning in depth and demonstrate leadership in an area of interest.
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Programming (Broadcast), Television, News Reporting, News Media, Citizen Participation, Learning Activities, Social Studies, Community Involvement, Middle School Students, Cooperative Learning, Production Techniques, Equal Education, Access to Information, Community Needs, After School Programs, School Activities, Skill Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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