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Sing Fire! Addressing the Climate Crisis through Participatory Culture Pedagogy
Theresa Redmond
English Journal, v114 n3 p79-86 2025
To start teaching about climate change in an immediately attention-grabbing and fully somatic way, the author begins with an activity called Singer/Songbird. The goal is for students to quickly identify that media and technology influence our environmental knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors toward climate change. Besides learning that they know more about singers than songbirds, students gain insight into how decades of global heating have impacted regional bird populations. This activity is also an example of how the author is incorporating ecomedia literacy and participatory culture into her media literacy class as a strategy to not only augment conceptions of literacy in the digital age, but also address the often-neglected topic of media and technology's relationship to climate change and environmental justice. This article shares the author's experiences redesigning a college-level media literacy course housed the university's College of Education. Specifically, the author sought to emphasize ecomedia literacy as a dimension of climate change education through participatory culture.
Descriptors: Climate, Teaching Methods, Popular Culture, Influence of Technology, Cultural Influences, Mass Media Effects, Cultural Context, Singing, Student Attitudes, Animals, Knowledge Level, Citizen Participation, Media Literacy, Environmental Education, Ecology
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