Mia

For our project, I think it would be important to observe both the teaching practices and the production practices of the Media Literacy program within the school. From this, we should be able to get a feel for how the school is using MLE, but it would also be essential to see and discuss how this is directly effecting and translating to the students. In order to do so, I think our first step would to get some background information on school and how they are incorporating MLE. Not only would this help us in the long-run before we get there, it would help us to define specific topics or questions that we want to focus on.

In the design of project, our first step would be to decide which approach to take in terms of collecting data. Both points have good aspects and negative ones, so it all depends on the group's overall feelings. Interviews would provide unique data and good pieces of information to use, while a survey or questions would be helpful for a larger pool of people, including our group. Essentially, we could do both, if that was a route we wanted to take.

In collecting research, our inital problem or topic should be defined as a group, but our project mostly revolves around the comparison of one classroom versus another. This leads us to having to collect equal data from each classroom. In reading other suggestions, I agree that engaging students in an activity would be the best way to collect unique data from our time spent there, rather than just observing their activity in the classroom and then comparing. It seems that the best way to go about an activity would to focus on mostly on viewing the media, rather than its direct production since our time is limited. While we can observe production practices, we may not be able to lead a production practice during our study. I also agree that an important piece of our work will be to bring suggestions and improvements to the school itself, and provide tangible data on how they could increase MLE in their classroom.