Bee Tee Dubs

In Lesson 3 of McCorkle and Palmeri’s article, they discussed the ways in which teachers designed lessons where students were producing their own media. “We classified an activity as media production if students were making something like a the radio or TV broadcast even if they were not using professional tools,” they stated. However, as a teacher I’ve found that many opportunities have opened up to provide students with professional tools to produce media like podcasts. A local bookstore called P&T Knitwear (named after the previous textile business that occupied the building) offers community members free access to their professional podcast studio. Anyone can sign up to create their own personal or professional series. This past year, my students used the studio to have a conversation about the expectations around body image and how that effects young people psychologically. This assignment was for a course of Feminist Controversies which I co-taught with a social studies teacher.