# Latest News ## expand\_more **In April 2025, the X-Media team wrapped up our second innovation project funded by the US Library of Congress through the TPS East Region grant program.** It provided the Harvard X-Media Lab the opportunity to continue expanding the cross-media methodology by incorporating a research-based assessment model, extend use of primary source analytics, conduct a new workshops and develop new educator resources. Read more about our activities and deliverables [here](https://xmedia.gse.harvard.edu/library-congress-2024-2025). (May 2025) **The US Library of Congress has awarded a new grant to the Harvard X-Media Lab** to expand upon the cross-media methodology using primary sources and to design new workshops and educator resources. Read more about plans [here](https://www.waynesburg.edu/community/tps-eastern-region/projects-state/massachusetts). (January, 2023) **Research Professor Robert L. Selman and Susan Johnson McCabe co-authored A "Cross Media" Model to Deepen Aesthetic, Ethical, and Academic Understanding,** a working draft chapter on using the tripartite method of analysis (aesthetic, academic and ethical) in the context of enhanced access through streaming media today. *Abridged version* under eview for publication by the Oxford Press (June, 2023) **Research Professor Robert L. Selman and Susan Johnson McCabe co-authored A "Cross Media" Model to Deepen Aesthetic, Ethical and Academic Understanding,** a working draft essay on using the tripartite method of analysis (aesthetic, academic and ethical) in the context of enhanced access through streaming media today. *Unabridged version* (May, 2023) **Research Professor Robert L. Selman and Randy Testa co-authored** ***“***[**What is a Teacher without Stories?” Teaching with Cross-Media Stories to Deepen Professional Ethos**](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm:978-3-030-73644-6/1.pdf)**.** This chapter appears in *The International Handbook of Teacher Ethos: Strengthening Teachers, Supporting Learners*, edited by the late Fritz Oser, a leading light in the field of moral development and former HGSE Fellow.(September, 2021). **The HGSE Professional Education recently added a new course,** [***Deeper Than Edutainment***](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/program/deeper-edutainment-taking-books-and-their-film-adaptations-seriously)***.*** to the [*Certificate in Media and Technology for Education*](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/certificate-media-and-technology-education) program. It was developed in collaboration with the X-Media Lab and focuses on the pedagogy/best practices of using cross media for deeper learning (May, 2021) **Harvard Ed. magazine (Fall 2019) article looks at how print and flm both offer educational value:** [Tales Told Twice Through Close Cross-Media Comparisons](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/19/08/tales-told-twice-through-close-cross-media-comparisons) **Mulitple ongoing research initiatives:** [The Promotion of Social Awareness across Cultures ](https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-Promotion-of-Social-Awareness-across-Cultures) **Promoting social development**: [A Conversation with HGSE's Bob Selman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLf3KnxtpK8&feature=youtu.be) **Field Study launches in Chile:** [Harvard -Universidad Adolfo Ibanez Cross-Media Collaboration](https://noticias.uai.cl/beca-colaboracion-harvard-uai/) ***The Performance of Open-Mindedness Observed in Youth Operating Under Cultural and Developmental Constraints*****,** presented at the [Open-Mindedness & Perspective Conference](https://ou.edu/content/dam/flourish/docs/Program.FINALWEB.180202.pdf) **A cross-media literacy booster and launch pad for conversations, featured in Usable Knowledge:** [Black Panther in the Classroom](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/03/black-panther-classroom) **Research into teens’ experiences with technology and social media, featured in The Conversation:** [Is cyberbullying all that goes over the line when-kids are online?](https://theconversation.com/is-cyberbullying-all-that-goes-over-the-line-when-kids-are-online-45150) **How teens help each other navigate online stress, featured in Usable Knowledge:** [Digital Drama](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/07/digital-drama) **Helping young people manage their digital behavior, featured in Usable Knowledge:** [Digital Risks](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/06/digital-risks) **Research highlights, featured in Harvard Ed. Magazine:** [Movies, Books and "The Giver](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/15/01/movies-books-and-giver) **"Without self-understanding and social awareness, moral action will always be at the whim of external forces." excerpt from article in EdWeek** : [Teaching Social Awareness Through Reading](/ww.edweek.org/ew/articles/2003/09/17/03selman.h23.html) **School Climate, featured in the Harvard Educational Review:** [How Students’ Perceptions of the School Climate Influence Their Choice to Upstand, Bystand, or Join Perpetrators of Bullying ](https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-84-number-2/herarticle/how-students%E2%80%99-perceptions-of-the-school-climate-in)**)** **Making the Case for X-Media in Classrooms** (*see pdf that follows*) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf Making the case for X-Media in Classrooms.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/gse-edumedialab/files/howeasyaccesstocrossmediaselmanandtesta_1.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf unabridged\_working\_draft\_essay\_a\_cross\_media\_model\_to\_deepen\_aesthetic\_ethical\_and\_academic\_understanding\_may\_2023.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/gse-edumedialab/files/unabridged_working_draft_essay_a_cross_media_model_to_deepen_aesthetic_ethical_and_academic_understanding_may_2023.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf abridged\_working\_draft\_chapter\_cross\_media\_model\_to\_deepen\_aesthetic\_ethical\_and\_academic\_understanding\_june2023.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4491/files/gse-edumedialab/files/abridged_working_draft_chapter_cross_media_model_to_deepen_aesthetic_ethical_and_academic_understanding_june2023.pdf) ---