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High school students in California find their voice through multimedia and learn to make a difference through what they create and share
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"Media is the language of kids," Torres adds, saying that students who may not take to learning by reading a textbook or listening to a lecture often jump at the chance to understand complex concepts by presenting finished products in the form of a film or a Web documentary or a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
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Christy Tucker
High school students in California find their voice through multimedia and learn to make a difference through what they create and share
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"Media is the language of kids," Torres adds, saying that students who may not take to learning by reading a textbook or listening to a lecture often jump at the chance to understand complex concepts by presenting finished products in the form of a film or a Web documentary or a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
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jlearn 2.0Edutopia article about digital storytelling originally published 7/1/2002
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Lenrose FearsSouthern California's San Fernando Education Technology Team focuses on learning by doing and speaks to students' fascination with technology and all things digital. Students use multimedia tools to create a variety of projects.
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Multimedia tools are introduced through projects in several different formats: documentaries, music, experimental video, advocacy/selling ideas, and storytelling/feature production. Content of the projects comes from the students and is often based on assignments given in other classes. Molina's sweatshop project fulfilled an assignment in her economics class. Using up-to-date "presentation of learned information makes for realistic, contextual, emotional connections" to what is learned, says Torres.
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Debra Bfrom METC -- student video about sweatshops
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craig rolandArticle on the San Fernando Education Technology Team (SFETT), Marco Torres' students.
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