stylus Community Programming Teaches Media Literacy
November 10th, 2010The Pulitzer and the St. Louis Public Library work with schools to build concordances, based on words they find used to describe their neighborhood.
Over the past few weeks, the Pulitzer’s community projects department has teamed up with the St. Louis Public Library to get teenagers thinking about community and how their community is portrayed by the media. The idea for the project came from the concordances in stylus, which draw text from newspapers from all over the world (find out more about them here).
For these concordance workshops, students from four different schools (Normandy High School, Nerinx Hall High School, Gateway to College and St. Elizabeth Academy) research articles about their neighborhood and think about the authors’ word choice. The texts are then filtered into concordance-making software, and the students choose words to be highlighted in the concordance index. As a final touch, Robert Duffy, Associate Editor at the St. Louis Beacon, is visiting the schools to talk about media literacy.
