Early Career Teaching Institute

In this session you will have the opportunity to try Playful Learning & Assessment for Impact Lab’s (PLAI Lab) game for educators and designers called Assessment Party. This is new and improved based on feedback from educators at ECTI 2023!
The game will help you think more deeply about assessment as a process of making claims based on evidence of student learning. After playing the game, we will spend time reflecting on the experience and how it can provide new ideas for approaching assessment in classrooms and informal learning spaces.

Learning Goals

• Think more deeply about assessment as a process of making claims based on evidence of student learning.
• Reflect on how to better design assessment tasks to elicit student understanding

Media Literacy builds upon traditional literacy skills like reading and writing and prepares students to think critically about all sources of communication. It empowers young people to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators, and active citizens. In this workshop, participants will investigate tools that allow them to integrate media literacy analysis and student-created media into their instruction. They will also explore resources that can enhance their own media literacy expertise from a trusted educational media organization. With guidance from presenters, participants will create their own media literacy-focused lessons that could earn credentials, leading to PBS Wisconsin Media Literacy Certification.

Learning Goals

• Explore high-impact media literacy skills and strategies and how they can be practiced and scaffolded across grade levels and learning spaces
• Consider how media literacy can be authentically taught and integrated into existing curricula, regardless of content area