Let’s Re-Brand Education in the Media

Last week, at the Illinois Computing Educator’s Conference, I had the pleasure of hosting Education and the Media: Pointing Toward the Positive. I invited anchors and reporters from all of Chicago’s big news networks- NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. It was an eye-opening event for myself and others, and offered a wide glimpse into how education news gets made, or… doesn’t. My vision for the talk was to understand more clearly how education news is treated by the big networks. We [...]