MYP Design: Media Makers for Impact
What’s Going On in This Picture?
Seoul Foreign School MYP Design Students launch a project using Empathy to Impact project design to produce responsible media to positively impact local and global communities.
Inspire Citizens’ Futures Media student facilitator, Christina Lin, and media collaboration partner Donna Guerin, zoomed into Seoul, South Korea to assist in launching a new project where students were making a variety of media types to authentically publish on the SFS Voice Lab website and work as mentor examples for Futures Media international projects and publications.
Christina Lin zooms into the Seoul Foreign School Project Launch.
WHY:
SFS’ Voicelab is a way to actively engage with media maker skills and make the MYP ATLs and Design Criterion come alive. It is also a way to develop Global Competence and concepts related to Service Learning. By using media to inspire audiences and have them engage with local communities and local community issues, this class aims to inspire and encourage positive change. Through authentically publishing student work on the Voice Lab website, through Inspire Citizens Futures Media, as well as with IC partners from Videos for Change and SIMA Classroom. In this way, student pieces reach a wider audience as a way to take action and engage in service learning in a positive media context.
WHAT:
The Voice Lab + Futures Media Podcast Channel Challenge:
Students were asked to do a personal inventory of sustainability, well-being, and social justice issues that they care deeply about and began to design inquiry questions while connecting these to the podcast pathway that provided the strongest thematic connection. In subsequent classes, students unpacked mentor podcasts and media, engaged in technology skills workshops on editing, filming, capturing audio, researched technology skills that would inform their output, and engaged in workshops on active listening skills and how to create interview questions.
HOW:
By launching the inquiry with an inventory of which sustainability, social justice, and collective well-being issues the students cared about, they were able to become more aware of these issues and investigate how these issues manifest themselves in authentic contexts and investigate how other media professionals use techniques to take action on similar issues.
By applying their technology skills and MYP Design Criterion, students prepared their media and content and edited, produced, and refined their pieces to act and have the greatest community impact possible. Through editing, demonstrating skills and understandings, receiving feedback, self-assessing, justifying their application of skills, and reflecting and demonstrating their learning, students were able to publish their media pieces for community impact that exemplified MYP Approaches to Learning and many other transformative learning goals connected to active global citizenship.
Watch below to hear Lauren explain how this experience impacted her.