RFK-LA (Legacy in Action)
During it's first year and a half, RFK-LA conducted three major projects: * The Participatory Learning and You Program (PLAY!) was a joint program between RFK-LA and the USC Annenberg School’s Innovation Lab. Under the supervision of RFK-LA’s lead academic partner, Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, LAUSD teachers and students, as well as invited non-profit organizations, provided a year long training and research program on the application of 21st century new media literacies in the classroom. * Partnering with USC Annenberg, RFK-LA provided after school programs with community outreach nonprofits, including among others: KCET’s Departures Program; Laughter for a Change; and Animaction. * Conducted an international educational game program: a semester-long, synchronous game played between the 5th grade math class at RFK Community Schools’ Ambassador School of Global Leadership and a 5th grade math class in Seoul Korea. The program was led by Professor Jong H., Wi, internationally recognized “serious game” designer and visiting Professor at CRESST UCLA school of education.
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- 2013 Grants Challenge
RFKLA (Legacy in Action) Digital Archive
To create and manage a student-centric online multimedia library, social media forum and digital media hub focused on social justice themes: The RFK-LA Archive. The Archive is designed to help make the concepts of human rights and civil rights personally relevant to students, thereby inspiring them to become agents for change and engaged members of the Los Angeles Community. The Archive is the central project of RFK-LA (Legacy in Action), a 501(c)(3) inspired by the democratic vision of Robert F. Kennedy. As a model for 21st century participatory learning, the mission of RFK-LA is to foster a more just society by educating young people to use evolving media technologies for positive social change. The RFK-LA Archive is a collaborative effort with the students and teachers of the New Open World Academy High School (NOW). NOW is located on the Los Angeles School District’s RFK Community Schools campus in midtown Los Angeles. It is being developed as a rich media repository of the works of social justice leaders past, present and future, as well as a social networking site and portfolio platform for students’ social justice-themed works. The RFK-LA Archive will provide teachers with comprehensive, inter-disciplinary student centered lesson plans with a democratic pedagogical emphasis linked to the U.S. Common Core Standards. Students will produce and publish field-related products, projects and artifacts, including investigative essays, documentaries and multimedia demonstrations that connect knowledge acquired in school with field research and community outreach activities. By offering a learning management system co-created by teachers and students, on which information can be easily shared and constructed, combined with a robust data aggregator, the RFK-LA Archive Project will help transform the way in which teachers teach and students learn. The Archive is intended to not only enhance all aspects of students’ academic careers, but to benefit the greater community by expanding students’ media literacy skills to discover their individual voices, to explore the world more fully from a social justice perspective and to contribute real value to their society.