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Media Education, Arts and Literacy Project (MEAL)

Just Think has just completed the Media Education, Arts and Literacy (MEAL) Project, a three-year program conducted in partnership with the Alliance for a Media Literate America and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE MEAL DOCUMENTARY

The goal of the project was to create an innovative and cohesive model curriculum demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating media literacy and media production into core middle school curriculum, strengthening critical and creative thinking skills, and improving students’ academic performance.

The program was implemented in two San Francisco Middle Schools, Marina Middle School and Visitacion Middle School. Just Think recruited and trained a total of 16 sixth and seventh grade teachers from the two schools. These teachers developed and conducted media literacy and media production projects in the classroom that met state and district standards in Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, and the Arts. 444 students from the two schools worked on a number of creative and exciting media projects over two academic years.

Evaluation and assessment of MEAL was conducted by the Michael Cohen Group. Evaluation results will be disseminated nationally by the DOE and the AMLA in the upcoming weeks.

Evaluation

Student Work

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MEAL Documentary

YME Support Teachers

If you are a Bay Area high school teacher or after school educator you can GET PAID to be part of a national education and youth development project with Just Think. This year’s program entitled “Pioneers” will engage youth during a six-week summer intensive to find pioneering ways to analyze, produce and disseminate their stories through various media channels.
YME application

Youth Media Educators 2008 Details

Just Think’s Youth Media Educators (YME) program is a unique training opportunity designed to provide young people with media arts skills and prepare them for the 21st century workplace. Every summer, high school students from all over the Bay Area are chosen to participate in a paid, six-week intensive summer program. For the YME 2008 Just Think’s Program Director will lead a group of media professionals…
Application”:http://www.justthink.org/file_download/91

Student Filmmakers

Bhutan Background

In April of 1999, Lyonpo Sangay Ndgedup, Minister of Education of Bhutan (currently the Minister of Government.) approved a collaborative media education project to teach 20 students to produce a series of 12- 15 minute narratives or documentaries for the Bhutan Broadcast System (BBS)

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