Voices from the Archive A glimpse into the life of Holocaust survivor Past györgy kun Forward Summer 2013 From Viral Video to Ethical Editing What students need to know about working with testimony holly willis Lessons from Kony 2012 If participatory politics is the future, media literacy is a must henry jenkins Testimony in Education Approaching the Tipping Point A conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan THE DIGEST OF USC SHOAH FOUNDATION – THE INSTITUTE FOR VISUAL HISTORY AND EDUCATION Board of Councilors Steven Spielberg Honorary Chair Edgar M. Bronfman Honorary Co-chair Renée Crown Honorary Co-chair Lew Wasserman Founding Executive Honorary Co-chair Directors June Beallor in Memoriam James Moll Robert J. Katz Chair Founding Advisory Committee Susan Crown Next Generation Karen Kushell Vice Chair Council Branko Lustig Harry L. Robinson Susan Crown Gerald R. Molen Vice Chair National Chair Executive Staff Wallis Annenberg Dan Adler Stephen D. Smith Russel S. Bernard Vice Chair Executive Director Gerald Breslauer* Marcy B. Gringlas Kim Simon Joel Citron Jerome Coben* Vice Chair Managing Director Stephen Cozen Andy Intrater Sam Gustman David Eisman Vice Chair Chief Technology Officer Phyllis Epstein Edward Sassower Karen Jungblut Emanuel Gerard* Vice Chair Anita Friedman Director of Research and Eric Greenberg Wendy Sassower Documentation Marcy B. Gringlas Vice Chair Anita Pace Marc Grossman Carole Blum Director of Technology Yossie Hollander Cecilia Chan Anne Marie Stein William Lauder Ulrika Citron Director of Lee Liberman Marsha Dworkin Communications Bruce Ramer Lori Fife Kori Street Michael Rutman* Mark Gordon Mickey Shapiro Harry Krakowski Director of Education Tad Taube Joshua Nash Ari Zev Erna Viterbi Lindy Snider Director of * Emeritus member Michael Wunderman Administration USCShoahFoundation e Institute for Visual History and Education 20 PastForward Summer 2013 Essays 8 Encouraging Opting In Rather Than Out By David C. Dwyer 24 9 IWitness at Hybrid High By Stephanie McC lay 18 10 Unexpected Teachers By Mariana Aguilar 11 Going Beyond Gold By Peter D. Cook 12 Need for Speed By Evan Marwell Introduction by Kim Simon 14 “A Damned Good Cry” By Kay Andrews 15 Wash, Rinse, Don’t Repeat By Michelle Sadrena Clark “Technology has already transformed how 16 Standing at the Intersection the world does business; it’s transformed how everyone By Kori Street interacts socially; it has literally led to democratic 26 PowerMyLearning revolutions. Technology has yet to change education, By Elisabeth Stock but I think we are approaching the tipping point.” 28 The View from Inside the Classroom –Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, page 20 By Brandon Haas 30 IWitness Evaluation Report By Chesley Beaver Features In troduction by Kim Simon MULTIMEDIA LITERACY 32 A Slowly Evolving Landscape Conversation with Werner Dreier, 18 From Viral Video to Ethical Editing Alice Herscovitch, and Karen Polak What students need to know about working with testimony. Moderated by Kori Street By Holly Willis 35 Digital Arguments By DJ Johnson SPECIAL FEATURE Voices from the Archive 20 Approaching the Tipping Point: 6 György Kun Technology in Education Translated and edited by Andrea Szőnyi A conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Interviewed by Stephen D. Smith Departments 2 Contributors TESTIMONY AND MEDIA LITERACY 5 Executive Director’s Letter 24 Lessons from Kony 2012 36 News & Events If participatory politics is the future, media literacy is a must. By Henry Jenkins 38 Roger A. Iger: An Ambassador for Humanity 40 IWitness Video Challenge pastforward Summer 2013 1 Meet the authors of this issue of PastForward PastForward brings together many voices Kay Andrews is a lecturer at around issues related to the educational and the Institute of Education’s scholarly use of genocide eyewitness testimony. Centre for Holocaust Education, Whether survivors or their descendants, teachers University of London. She or students, scholars, historians, or filmmakers, began her career as a secondary school teacher before joining the the variety of their experiences and opinions is Holocaust Educational Trust in a sample of the lively milieu of critical thought 1999, where she later became and discourse emerging around the USC Shoah head of education. Her current Foundation's Visual History Archive. Mariana Aguilar is a third work at the IOE focuses on grade teacher at View Park teacher education programs Elementary Accelerated Charter and creating innovative ways School, in Los Angeles, Calif., and a Teach for America Los Angeles Corps Member. She is a graduate student at Loyola Marymount University, pursu- ing a master’s in urban educa- tion. Aguilar graduated from USC with a major in social science with an emphasis in psychology. She won the 2011 Viewer’s Choice Award for of accessing Holocaust-related the USC Shoah Foundation’s materials. Andrews has been a Student Voices Film contest. member of the U.K. delegation page 6 Andrea Szőnyi, senior international training consultant to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (for- merly ITF) since 2005 and is currently chair of the Communi- cations Working Group. She has spoken at conferences around the world on issues relating to Holocaust education. Michelle Sadrena Clark is a teacher at High Tech High North County in San Marcos, Calif. She earned her master’s in Pacific International Affairs at the Graduate School of Inter- national Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. Clark received her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Irvine. Currently she is pursuing a degree in dance at Palomar College. With a dual passion Contributors Summer 2013 for education and dance, Clark Alice Herscovitch is the embraces an energetic teaching executive director of the Mon- style that truly motivates stu- treal Holocaust Memorial dents to learn. She is a graduate Centre. She has been a member of the USC Shoah Foundation’s of the International Holocaust 2011 Master Teacher Workshop. Remembrance Alliance’s Educa- tion Working Group since 2005 and became its chair in 2013. David C. Dwyer is the first DJ Johnson is a documentary holder of the Katzman-Ernst filmmaker, media artist, and Chair for Educational Entrepre- educator. He serves as assistant neurship, Technology, and Inno- professor of cinema practice in vation at USC’s Rossier School the Institute for Multimedia Lit- of Education. Through that role eracy (IML) at the USC School he founded USC Hybrid High of Cinematic Arts. In his work Peter D. Cook spent five years School, a transformational as the former video documentar- as a U.S. Marine, after finishing urban charter school. Dwyer ian for the IML, Johnson devel- high school—serving at U.S. was a Distinguished Scientist Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s oped innovative techniques to Embassies in Ecuador, Spain, at Apple Inc., where he led the Professor of Communication, document multimedia pedagogy and Haiti. He studied at Ameri- Apple Classroom of Tomorrow Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and scholarship. With expertise can University, in Washington, (ACOT) research program. He and Education at the University in digital storytelling, documen- D.C., after which he became a also served at Apple as director of Southern California. He ar- tary production, and new media, teacher—and worked in the of Education Technologies, was rived at USC in fall 2009 after Johnson has developed and Czech Republic and in Japan— chief academic officer at Apex spending the past decade as the taught courses for educational as well as stints on the East and Learning, founded two startup programs internationally. West coasts in America. Cook education companies in Silicon has a master’s in organizational Valley, and, in his formative management, and is working on years, was a recognized middle- his PhD in urban leadership at and high school science teacher. Claremont Graduate University. Cook is a USC Shoah Founda- tion 2011 Master Teacher Work- shop graduate. He currently teaches at Camino Nuevo Char- ter Academy, Los Angeles, Calif. director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and Evan Marwell is the CEO and the Peter de Florez Professor co-founder of EducationSuper- of Humanities. He is the author Highway. Over the last 25 years, and/or editor of 15 books on vari- he has been an entrepreneur, Brandon Haas is a high school ous aspects of media and popu- starting companies in the teacher in Tampa, Fla. At Free- lar culture, including Spreadable telecommunications, software, dom High School, Haas teaches Media: Creating Value and Mean- hedge fund and consumer retail- Holocaust studies and assists ing in a Networked Culture (2013, ing industries. He has served the school district of Hillsbor- with Sam Ford and Joshua on the board of several for-profit ough County’s Secondary Social Green) and Reading in a Partici- and nonprofit organizations. Werner Dreier is the founding Studies in matters pertaining to patory Culture: Remixing Moby- Marwell was most recently the director of _erinnern.at_, an Holocaust curriculum and Dick for the Literature Classroom chairman of the Golden Gate institution for teacher training teacher training. He is also pur- (2013, with Wyn Kelley, Katie Chapter of the Young Presi- and development of learning ma- suing a doctoral degree in cur- Clinton, Jenna McWilliams, dents’ Organization and is cur- terial on behalf of the Austrian riculum and instruction from Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and Erin rently the president of the Board Ministry of Education. Dreier is the University of South Florida, Reilly). He has written for Tech- of Trustees at the Katherine a past chair and current member through which he investigates nology Review, Computer Games, Delmar Burke School in San of the International Holocaust Holocaust education and peda- Salon, and The Huffington Post. Francisco. He has now turned Remembrance Alliance’s Educa- gogy. Haas is a graduate of the his entrepreneurial energies tion Working Group. USC Shoah Foundation’s 2011 toward improving education.