L.A. Leadership Academy - Education Notes
The Education Notes blog helps to mediate between the plan designed for each installment of Youth Voices and the reality of the classroom. By reflecting on the weekly workshops from the educator's perspective, we are able to write and share about the process of the project, and how it relates to larger social and educational issues.
We invite you to follow Departures Youth Voices as we work closely with students and community members to Re-envision the L.A. River.
Entries
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Northeast L.A. covers many neighborhoods and many experiences. See how students from three local high schools see, experience, and understand their communities through a multimedia journey.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
The places, people, and objects of interest marked on their maps, collectively begin to form the student's narrative of their community.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Field work provides the Youth Voices student producers with an opportunity to practice the technical and creative ideas they have been exploring in the media workshops.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Some pictures capture the essence of a location while others invite the viewer to experience the place in a deeper more emotional way that allows us to understand it's importance to the student photographer.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
As the student producers move from the personal to the collaborative phase of Youth Voices, new sets of complex relationships and stories begin to emerge.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Maps have not always been simple representations of reality but a tool used to conceptualize and organize space. This is true for the Youth Voices producers who focused on their personal experiences, memories and relationships to create their community maps.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
Youth Voices student producers were given disposable film cameras to photograph the river.
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
How do we break the ice and begin to get to know one another while simultaneously developing a safe space to launch a multi-media community exploration?
Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront:
The object the student shares and their explanation of its significance offers physical evidence of the personal link the students have with their neighborhood.
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