Today is World Radio Day. And the theme this year is youth and radio. At 14 years old, and through her high school years, Youth Radio’s Bianca Brooks started learning about journalism, and reporting on a variety of issues on many platforms – video, online apps, and radio. She liked radio most of all.
The lyrics “imaginary numbers control the ones we love” is a realization that our lives are ruled by numbers such as; your age, test scores, grade, weight or height. Fate lies within those numbers and dictates our happiness and we should accept whatever numbers we have.
Youth Radio started off the year covering school safety, focusing especially on elementary school classrooms. We went on to explore the changing timing of puberty education, programs for young undocumented college students and the phenomenon of cyberbullying on social media sites.
Youth Radio mourns the loss of Raul Ramirez, a much loved leader in the field of journalism in the SF Bay Area and nationally and a great champion of diversity in the newsroom. Raul was a tough editor with a great sense of humor. After working for several major newspapers, he spent more than 20 years as Executive Director for News and Public Affairs at KQED Radio in San Francisco.
Now that our team had experimented with piecing together a curriculum in a logical order, our next job was to dive into what a single lesson looks like, and then decide which lessons we wanted to create for our first year of the Innovation Lab’s storytelling curriculum project.
Now that we all had a general understanding of the innovation lab and its mission, it was time for our team to think about the way people learned in order to build an effective curriculum over the course of the year.
This is Part One in a series of posts coming out of a Curriculum Bootcamp we held at Youth Radio this fall to introduce a small group of young people to the process of creating learning experiences for peers.
