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Youth Voices - where we analyze texts of all media, types, and complexities.

Students working to become power users on Youth Voices conduct short-term and in-depth research projects, doing close readings of multi-modal and multi-cultural resources.

Each of the four tasks asks the student to cite strong and through textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Students develop and demonstrate their close reading through a careful use of annotations, dialectical notetaking, APA or MLA citations, and hyperlinking to sources.

P Time it should take to complete:
10 hrs

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Research - Construct and Express

Create and share photo essays, or video- and audio-playlists.

Go deeper into your research by doing one of the following:

Keep notes using the guide Dialectical Notes. Share Presentation or playlist and docs with your teacher and peers.

Use Creative
Commons Images
in Research

Use Creative Commons
images to pose questions
and complicate your
thinking about your
research topic. Images
have a way of adding
complex, sometimes
even contradictory ways
of seeing a subject. Make
a short slide show that
expresses different
perspectives on your topic
without words.

Use EDU-YouTube
for Research

Many of us use YouTube
for entertainment,
but browse over to
YouTube.com/education
to see how many
fascinating videos you
can find to spark your
research project. Use
EDU-YouTube to find
2 or 3 videos from such
inspiring sources as
TEDx Talks, Stamford
University, and PBS
NewsHour, and more!

Using iTunes and
NPR Podcasts
for Research

Podcasts are rich
sources of information
for most any research
project. Search on
iTunes to see what
you can find, then
look on NPR to find
couple of podcasts
there as well. Listen
carefully, take
dialectical notes, so
that you can add your
brief transcriptions,
citations, and
responses from these
podcasts to your
discussion post.

If you do a photo essay, make your Presentation Public to the web, Publish it, and copy the Document link, then come here (back to this P2PU Task), and paste that link into a comment box.

If you keep Dialectical Notes on videos or podcasts, make your Doc Public to the web, Publish it, and copy the Document link, then come here (back to this P2PU task), and paste that link into a comment box. You should also include links to your YouTube playlist or to a page of podcast links that you've collected in Docs. (See details in each assignment.)

Paste these links to your work into a comment before you click Yes, I'm done .