Help us bring student journalism to SXSW!

If you liked our recent segment on 8th-grader De’Qonton Davis and his talent for storytelling, help our Student Reporting Labs team make it to South by Southwest (SXSW)! Our proposed panel for SXSWedu focuses on empowering students to tell their own stories through video journalism.

More than half of the high schools in America have a school newspaper or a video production course — but, how can these programs encourage citizenship and improve the media landscape of the future? We’ve developed a curriculum and news platform that enables middle and high school students to produce video reports on important national topics that impact their local communities. In this panel, we’ll share how video journalism can help young people gain confidence in themselves as capable, socially responsible citizens by discovering the power of storytelling.

To help us out, please:

1. Register: SXSW PanelPicker
2. Vote for our panel: “Kids Who Produce News Become Better Citizens”
3. Share: the last day to vote is Oct. 5, so tell your friends!

Thanks, thanks, a million thanks.

signal boost, SXSW, journalism, students, .

10.01.12 ♥ 14

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psych-facts:

psych-comedy:

“Higher Education”. HA!

Follow http://psych-comedy.tumblr.com for more psychology jokes! ;)

education, students, student loans, political cartoons, .

09.28.12 ♥ 12629

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moneyisnotimportant:

brooklynmutt:

@AP

They’ll probably just blow it all on student loans.

University of California, Occupy, students, .

09.26.12 ♥ 362

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Zoom

Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama sent a message from Tibet, supporting student movement “YoSoy132” in Mexico City

Tibet, Mexico, students, Dalai Lama, .

06.29.12 ♥ 288

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“ I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

—

Toni Morrison (via humanformat)

THIS. hate hearing people from minority groups who have gotten a chance in life bitching about how ”if THEY can do it, so can everyone else! its so fucking SIMPLE! You guys just need to stop being so lazy”

its NOT fucking simple and how DARE you belittle the struggles of those like you just because they aren’t lucky enough to be in ur position.

(via queerhairyvag)

toni morrison, class, students, capitalism, .

05.02.12 ♥ 7075

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Zoom

“I’m interested in who profits from student debt. And finding where they live”

philosophy-of-praxis:

and then getting a decent sized spit and a fire pit.

students, college, university, loans, debt, economy, capitalism, .

04.30.12 ♥ 2165

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“ For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.

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—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

Tell it!

(via sequinsandsideeye)

Obama, loans, students, debt, capitalism, college, university, .

04.27.12 ♥ 20207

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