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WHYY Media Labs in Schools

Started: 2014
Ages 10-12 Ages 13-18
  • Currently active
  • Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
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WHYY Media Labs are a three year partnership that seed media production programs in partner schools. WHYY provides media equipment and a WHYY media instructor, who trains teachers to use media production in classrooms and runs after-school programs in news or documentary production. Each year, the teachers take on more responsibility for the programming with goal of establish a self-sustaining program after three years. Some schools also have summer media labs, which serve as employment sites for our pathways to media careers program. WHYY serves all types of public Philadelphia schools (K-8s, middles, high schools, neighborhood schools, magnets, etc) as well as a few charters and parochial schools.

This project reaches tweens and teens via...

  • Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
  • Indirectly reaching t(w)eens via educators, PD, curriculum
  • Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens

What topics does this project focus on?

Civic engagement Culture, society Current affairs Education Identity, relationships Journalism Life skills, career skills Media literacy Media making Music, art Science, technology Wellness, mental health

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Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?

Other

*Sometimes. We have a few school-based after-school programs that regularly interface with the station's journalists.

Departments involved:

Education

Partner organizations involved:

The School District of Philadelphia as well as individual partner schools.

Media and/or educational content

Who is the primary audience of the content?

Other

*Content produced during school hours servers primarily as an assessment for educators. Content produced after school is largely shared with parents and students and sometime on air at WHYY.

Who creates the media content?

T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)

*Other

Who decides the topic areas of the content?

Other

*After-school content in youth only. In-school content is determined by the assigning teacher

Where is the content shared?

YouTube Broadcast TV

Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming

In this project...

We host programming directly for t(w)eens We partner with our *local school district(s)* to host programming

Contact time between youth participants and station staff:

11+ hours

Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:

11+ hours

Indirectly engaging youth via educators, professional development, or curriculum

This project indirectly engages youth by partnering with...

Schools

Does this project train educators or run a professional development program?

Yes

Does this project create curricula or educational resources for educators to use?

Yes