Apply to be a youth filmmaker with DFS!

DFS is launching our 1st Out of School Project in Jan. 2015, the Documentary Workshop led by teaching artist Andrea Claire Maio. Check out the info and application below:

WHAT

The DFS Documentary Workshop will investigate education in Detroit from the perspective of the young people who are most affected by it. We will spend six months exploring questions like: what does it mean for education to be humanizing? what does it mean for it to be dehumanizing? and how does the larger education system determine what’s possible in our schools? We will produce a documentary film that tells the story of our discoveries.

WHY

Too often, young people are reduced to statistics in the debate about education in Detroit. We believe young people can and should be leaders in addressing the complex problems we face in Detroit, from the drop-out crisis, to the crisis of local accountability in our separate school districts, to the need for new ways of measuring success beyond standardized testing.

WHO WE ARE

Detroit Future Schools is a digital media arts program committed to humanizing education in Detroit. The Documentary Workshop will be led by Detroit Future Schools Artist-in-Residence Andrea Claire Maio, a Detroit based filmmaker, whose work has been heard and seen on NPR, PBS and at film festivals in the US and abroad.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for young people (ages 14 - 21) who…

• have ideas for how education in Detroit can be better

• want to grow those ideas in collaboration with others

• want to learn about filmmaking

• want to use media as a tool for change

WHEN & WHERE

You must be able to commit to meet for three hours per week after school at the Allied Media Projects office in the Cass Corridor (4216 Third Street).  Exact meeting days and times will be determined in January.

HOW TO APPLY

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Complete the application and return it to Detroit Future Schools 4126 Third Street Detroit, MI 48201 or email it to dfs@alliedmedia.org before December 31, 2014.

DFS Media Workshop for educators: Stop Motion Video for the Classroom

DFS is working with Co.Open, to bring a 2 week workshop that will share our best practices for using stop motion video production in the classroom.

STOP MOTION VIDEO FOR THE CLASSROOM WORKSHOP

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on October 11 & October 18

How can educators use digital media to make a classroom more humanizing? Over the last 3 years Detroit Future Schools has been making media in Detroit k-12 classrooms. In this workshop, participants will explore stop motion video production as a classroom practice for creating a more dynamic learning space. We will make our own stop motion videos and also prepare lesson plans for your classroom that use stop motion video to make your classroom content come to life. We will cover everything from why digital media is such a powerful learning tool, to how to manage a film crew of 30 youth with cameras.

Come with lesson plans and/or content you need to cover. If you have a smartphone and/or any cameras that is a plus but not mandatory. Open to all educators!

Instructor: Nate Mullen

Nate Mullen is Detroit Future Schools project coordinator. Nate is a graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. For three years, Nate has worked in classrooms across Detroit and has led student media investigations yielding critical projects which have included everything from stop motion videos about Newton’s Laws to infographics on economic globalization. All of these projects are the result of working closely with teachers and students to integrate digital media into the core curriculum of the classroom.

Detroit Future Schools program offers a new classroom paradigm |DFS featured in Model D

Model D Media recently released an excellent piece by David Sands, "Detroit Future Schools program offers a new classroom paradigm". The piece speaks to the history of the work Detroit Future Schools has been doing over the last three years and the impact it has had in the classroom.

Quote From Allie Gross, a DFS teacher from our 2nd year

"I feel like my students gained so much. They really looked forward to the DFS artist coming into the classroom," says Gross. "It really centers upon student-centered learning and students expressing their opinion and backing it up with evidence. Those became key components of my classroom, which I'm very grateful to DFS for introducing to me."

Check the piece out here!

There are also some amazing shots from one of our last days of school at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School by the amazing Marvin Shaouni.