Schedule Details - Affinity Group Workshops #3
Youth Power Session 3: ACTION PROJECT PLANS
This session
will formulate a gamut of youth prioritized local, regional and statewide
projects that will constitute the work for 2005. What production projects, communication and connecting
work, community service, school reform, legislative advocacy, broadcast
programs, showcase festivals, and/or organizing priorities, should be selected
to strengthen the local, regional, and statewide youth digital arts movement?
1.
What
projects should be selected to strengthen the local, regional, and statewide
youth digital arts movement?
2.
What
local, regional and statewide supports and organizations currently exist to
achieve these projects
3.
What
additional support and resources are absolutely essential to make achieve these
priorities and how will this be successfully sought and secured?
4.
What
presentations to lawmakers and the showcase audience will be made at the IMAX
Theatre tonight? Who will prepare and lead?
Teacher Power Session 3:
A PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS ORGANIZATION NOW!
This session will advance the
establishment of a formal professional organization to advance the work of
educators in digital media arts and communications technology work, promote
field development, to stabilize and secure professional achievement and tenure,
and to assist in all around benefits - personal and professional - for school
and community teachers
1.
What
professional organizations currently best serve teachers in the general field
of digital and media arts and what must be done to determine whether an
existing or new organization is indicated? Who is included? Who is excluded?
2.
What
interim and long-term professional partnerships can be forged now to strengthen
teachers in the field regionally and statewide?
3.
What
staff and resource needs are essential for organization success and how, when
and by whom will these be acquired?
4.
Who
will move this investigative and organizational agenda forward immediately?
Curriculum
Articulation Session 3:
POST SECONDARY ARTICULATION TO MATCH TEACHING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
GRADES 8 – 16 WHEN THE Traditional
Instruction Day IS NOT ENOUGH
This session will examine ways for the post secondary system to
address the difficulty of providing credit and transferability of high quality
digital and media arts pedagogy that requires extended day and after school
programming. Possible solutions will be discussed to cultivate commercial
quality and “advanced placement” curriculum linkage from an instructional
program hybrid.
1. How can the post secondary credit and transfer
mechanisms support and bridge teaching and learning across school and after
school settings needed to
achieve student
mastery and excellence?
2. How does the
post secondary partnerships for the media arts and communications technology
provide a level playing field for student diversity, low income and global cultures/languages?
3. How can
digital media arts and communication technology programming secure the necessary
post secondary instructional/credit base support?
4. How can this
Secondary/Post secondary instructional area build financial and political
support given existing barriers in the education system and
reimbursement
model?
Industry
and Technology Session 3: Science vs. Aesthetics Competencies: Workforce
Schizophrenia?
This session will examine the challenges for industry to find and
retain qualified professionals and employees that possess the requisite
integrated skill sets and qualifications for the contemporary and future
digital technology based workplace.
1. Are
integrating complementary competencies, science and aesthetics, realistic
educational objectives in workforce producing curricula or must specialization
prevail?
2. What
education models exist that produce the highest quality professional quality
performance and artistry? What distinguishes these?
3. What
role can or must industry play in shaping education policies and practices in
this field to achieve the workforce of the future?
4. What
compelling incentives or influences must exist to encourage industry to strategically invest in system
wide education reforms for community non-profit development?
Best
Practice Partnerships Session 3:
This session
will review the current status of existing youth movie festival showcase models
at the regional and statewide level, explore establishing best youths movie
circulation, cataloguing, and exhibition event resource assistance.
1. What are we ready
to sustain at regional, statewide and/or national levels, in terms of
distributing or sharing our best youth media productions and supporting
the
creation of public movie showcases?
2. How do we
integrate marketing and business practices in the teaching of financial,
commercial and legal realities and responsibilities as part of our service to
the success of
youth media artists?
3. How do we
reconcile the diverse aims and purposes of youth media efforts in order to form
a professional identity for the field?