Amplifying Student Voices across the Community | Empowering Young Media Consumers and Creators

How do you foster students’ authentic voices and empower your students to tell their stories through digital media? For this episode, we’ve gone to one of public media’s most powerful personal storytelling platforms: The Moth Radio Hour. A favorite of hipsters (think Lena Dunham) and grandparents alike, The Moth is a movement of “True Stories, Told Live.” It started in a living room. But it grew through local story slams, international fellowship programs, student outreach, podcasts and public radio. Now millions of listeners tune in weekly to relate to the ordinary, yet extraordinary, stories and storytellers. 

In the final session of our three part PBS “Live Learning” experience: Empowering Young Media Consumers and Creators, we’ll be joined by The Moth storytelling expert, Micaela Blei. Blei is a teacher, writer, storyteller and PhD student, who, until recently, was Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Moth, where she worked with teachers and students to cultivate their stories. Prior to coming to the Moth, she was a third grade classroom teacher. 

Blei will join our PBS Digital Innovator All Star hosts, Joquetta Johnson and Steve Auslander, to talk about effective storytelling and highlight exciting resources and models that you can immediately implement in your classroom.