Digital Media Studies at Roosevelt High School
"The DigME Program is revitalizing teaching and learning for the 21st Century, offering a challenging curriculum to promote student engagement and achievement. The University of Minnesota is proud to partner with Roosevelt High School in providing a futures-oriented education that engages all students in participating as creative and informed citizens."
- Cynthia Lewis Ph.D., Professor of Literacy Education, University of Minnesota
- Cynthia Lewis Ph.D., Professor of Literacy Education, University of Minnesota
Roosevelt High School’s Digital Media Studies program (DigME) is the first of its kind for high schools in the area providing students with a cutting-edge interdisciplinary curriculum that adapts digital media technologies for critical analysis and hands-on learning in the 21st Century classroom.
What is Digital Media?
Digital media refers to video, online news resources, social networking, emerging media, blogs, film/TV, photos, podcasts, web tutorials, etc. that are created to help communicate ideas and critically examine information.
Digital media has dramatically changed the way we think, communicate and interact. New technologies demand new ways of learning and processing information. Roosevelt High School’s DigME program strives to adapt new technologies into teaching to empower students to think critically, build meaning, and demonstrate their understanding across all subjects.
Course Objectives
The DigME program is designed to meet curriculum requirements for Minneapolis Schools and Roosevelt High School in a way that promotes flexibility, adaptability and choice in learning core subjects (math, English, social studies and science) while developing key skills that shape technological aptitude. DigME will help students:
Example of Projects
Students in the program are encouraged to discover and develop their unique “voice” within the digital culture by exploring and critiquing the tools of technology and participating and interacting with them. Teachers instruct using digital tools and students get hands-on practice in producing their own digital products. Student projects include: Online magazines and graphic novels
Program Benefits
At the core of the DigME Program is Roosevelt High School’s relationship with the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development. This partnership focuses on curriculum development, student development and mutual professional development through student internships and ongoing education for teachers.
Students will benefit from strong school-to-work connections through partnerships with local technical schools and internships with artists, studios and businesses in the fields of new media and digital media. The ultimate goal is to continue to build and strengthen those relationships to further prepare students for future success.
What is Digital Media?
Digital media refers to video, online news resources, social networking, emerging media, blogs, film/TV, photos, podcasts, web tutorials, etc. that are created to help communicate ideas and critically examine information.
Digital media has dramatically changed the way we think, communicate and interact. New technologies demand new ways of learning and processing information. Roosevelt High School’s DigME program strives to adapt new technologies into teaching to empower students to think critically, build meaning, and demonstrate their understanding across all subjects.
Course Objectives
The DigME program is designed to meet curriculum requirements for Minneapolis Schools and Roosevelt High School in a way that promotes flexibility, adaptability and choice in learning core subjects (math, English, social studies and science) while developing key skills that shape technological aptitude. DigME will help students:
- Develop and use critical thinking skills
- Analyze and critique various types of media including television, commercials, movies, periodicals, radio and the Internet
- Actively participate in daily reading, writing, analyzing and discussion activities
- Participate in producing digital media projects that will stretch students’ analytic and creative capacities
- Journalism
- Video and audio
- Interactive and social media
- Marketing/advertising
- Documentary film making
- Web and network development
- Online learning: using wikis, moodles, blogging
- Exploring the critical, theoretical and cultural dimensions of digital media
Example of Projects
Students in the program are encouraged to discover and develop their unique “voice” within the digital culture by exploring and critiquing the tools of technology and participating and interacting with them. Teachers instruct using digital tools and students get hands-on practice in producing their own digital products. Student projects include: Online magazines and graphic novels
- Podcasts and recorded interviews
- Documentary films and news video programs
- Portfolio and exhibitions
- Web pages, photography and blogs
Program Benefits
At the core of the DigME Program is Roosevelt High School’s relationship with the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development. This partnership focuses on curriculum development, student development and mutual professional development through student internships and ongoing education for teachers.
Students will benefit from strong school-to-work connections through partnerships with local technical schools and internships with artists, studios and businesses in the fields of new media and digital media. The ultimate goal is to continue to build and strengthen those relationships to further prepare students for future success.