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How to Use Movie Making to Connect With Hard-to-Reach Students in Class and Online

Learning Unleashed: ISTE Radio

English - October 03, 2021 09:50 - 9 minutes
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Our guest believes that in the current climate we have to be more intentional and creative about reaching all students -- especially routinely reserved or shy students. In this episode, we discuss innovative ways to use movie-making to make learning more personalized, appealing, and meaningful to students with widely different needs.

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As a middle school teacher for 16 years and a California Teacher of the Year (2014), Jessica has continually worked to redefine what learning looks like in her classroom. An ISTE author, Jessica's book, Moviemaking in the Classroom, will be released in August 2021. She is an advocate for student choice and voice, as demonstrated by the original content her students regularly publish for a global audience. She also spent over a decade as a professional development instructor and Consulting Teacher for a digital storytelling non-profit organization called DIGICOM Learning, aimed at promoting moviemaking in southern California classrooms.