Marlo: Becoming An Ally
'I guess it runs in the family because I remember my grandmother. We were talking to her about would she like to go into a home because she was starting to lose certain functions, and it was getting more challenging for her and the family, and she said, “Why would I want to go in those places? They’re full of old people.”'
Matt: High School Sucked
"I think my initial motivations were um that I think if I, when I was in high school if I had that program, my, the decision-making I, well the decision I made about my schooling would have been different and I probably would have had a much better experience with high school because I had a really terrible high school experience."
Miriam: Work as Research
"My job as a researcher isn’t just to make sure that the camera is functioning and that the batteries are charged, but it’s also to observe what’s happening between Matt and his students, and find out if there’s things I can draw from there."
Miriam: Not a Hypodermic Needle
"I have a beef in the way that youth are represented in media, and also in media literacy. I think in both cases, their agency’s kind of compromised."
Matt: Media Literacy and Cookies
"It was just one more exposure for me to know how much work goes into manipulating images, and making sure kids watch the stuff and then stay tuned for the commercials and buying Oreos, and whatever else."
