YouthLearn

This website is fantastic! It provides easy-to-read, user-friendly theory and tips about inquiry-based learning. You'll be happy to know that it's not a spanking new thing that needs a whole new way of doing things but, rather, goes back to education philosopher, John Dewey. It challenges an information-focued learning model and inspires a transformation-focused model in its place.

The Empowerment Spiral

By teaching media literacy,we empower our students to make informed decisions and use these skills (Awareness, analysis, reflection, action) in all aspects of their lives. One of the main purposes of the Empowerment Spiral is to move students towards ACTION and ADVOCACY. With this type of awareness as a foundation, students will be able to identify some causes and may pusue solutions to social justice issues(making the personal political). That is, after analyzing a web-based media construction (for exgample, Martin Luther King.org) students may be moved to act on behalf of equity and work towards the eradication of racism in our time, however big or small this work may be.