Use community-focused prompts and authentic audiences to make creative projects personally meaningful¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

Program observations identified the challenge prompts (share what makes your community special, inspire action for positive change, or help people learn something new) and creating with a purpose about issues students care about as valuable design features. The prompts' community focus helped teachers become more aware of their students' lives and helped students find value in their own story, while the competition element and possibility of reaching a broad audience beyond their schools motivated students to push themselves.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Prompts that invite personal relevance and community focus; a final competition or public audience element

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• high school students producing media projects

Target Learning Goals¶

• personal meaning and pride in creative work
• communication of issues students care about

Related Strategies¶

• Focusing Projects on Issues of Justice
• Racial Equity in PBL - Focus Projects on Issues of Justice

Examples¶

• 360 Filmmakers Challenge

Key Sources¶

• 360 Filmmakers Challenge: Key Findings from the Fall 2016 Program. (2017). Digital Promise Global. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/bf98d40e-980c-4f54-9985-46bf5675d2fa