The key points of this article are the benefits and techniques of incorporating media literacy into lesson plans. When using media correctly with students, they gain the ability to explain their reasoning clearly and come to conclusions after looking at and analyzing all the data present. A skill students of this generation need to learn at an early stage is the ability to gauge the accuracy of sources because there are many that aren't credible. Students have to feel comfortable with interpreting information given to make sure it is valid. Moreover, students will feel comfortable sharing their conclusions of the document with the class, then should be prepared to defend their analysis. Using leading questions to ensure student understanding is a technique teachers use when incorporating media literacy into their lessons.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because media literacy is another method of teaching through inquiry. Students are learning how to read different types of media on their own to provide that ability which will need to be carried throughout their lives. Advertisements and news articles will always be present and students will have to figure out if the information is to be believed or not. This article teaches inquiry while also addressing media in the classroom.
The key points of this article are: -Inquiry based learning is not a new approach to teaching. -Inquiry based learning started in the 1920’s and was founded in undergraduate math classes. - It has a long record of success in the classroom as well as a large amount of data supporting its efficiency. -Inquiry based learning strives to incorporate the subjects we learn in school in to everyday life. It is an attempt to make what students are learning relevant and applicable to them. - The main goal of inquiry style learning is to teach students how to problem solve. -It forces students to construct conceptual meaning and rely upon previous knowledge to fix a problem. -Inquiry based learning has also been proven to provide a more conceptual understanding for students.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it fully explains what inquiry learning is. In education classes we always here teacher say “you have to use inquiry learning in your lesson plans” or “inquiry learning is the new norm in education” but inquiry learning was never fully explained. This articled helped me to fully understand what inquiry learning is, what the main goal of inquiry learning is, and why it is so successful. I also feel that inquiry learning helps to support teaching common core standards in the classroom because inquiry learning promotes real world application of knowledge and problem solving, which are skills that students need for life and college readiness.
The Key points of this article are that inquiry based learning is much more effective then memorization for students. The retention of information by students is also much greater using an inquiry method. Inquiry based learning is very successful in the classroom based on the data observed by the study in the article and it allows students to be problem solvers instead of regurgitators allowing them to connect the ideas from the classroom to real life situations.
The article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows how inquiry can help students make connections between real life problems and what they learn in the classroom. I love the quote by the professor "the less the teacher says the more the student learns" because it summarizes what inquiry based learning is all about. The students have a problem and they need to figure out how to solve it using their knowledge and the teacher or professor is there as a guide to help show them the way without telling them the answer.
The key points of this article are making school relevant to students by bringing in outside, media, sources that are relevant today to help explain our subject area better. This article explains the many benefits of using media in the classroom. However, it is not just enough to use media, media has to be used properly and in a way that allows the student to think critically. Teachers have to carefully select their media documents, but at the same time try and use sources most present to today as possible. Using media also will allow students to interpret sources based on fact and fiction. It is very important for a student to watch something or hear something and be able to determine whether it is credible and reliable or completely inaccurate. Teachers should not use these sources as a way to take up class time either, they need to be meaningful sources, teacher need to make sure the students understand by asking something more than a yes or no answer, students need to use the media sources to help them provide evidence to support their answers.
This article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by implementing media in the classroom we are only broadening the questions we can ask as teachers and the different ways we can have our students think critically about a certain topic or subject. Media plays a large role in history, both present and past, and I think that by allowing more sources in our classrooms our students will not only enjoy the subject area more but be able to determine what is factual and unreliable when researching.
Media literacy is a crucial skill that we need to teach our students. All aspects of the media are effective ways of making lessons more relatable to our students. As teachers, we can use powerful media tools (such as the internet, magazines, videos, etc.) to enhance our lessons and to reinforce the key ideas we hope that students take away from our lessons. However, students need to realize that everything in the media has a hidden agenda. They need to be able to "read between the lines" when using media. The article goes into some strategies for students to use to become more "media literate". For example, when reading an article, students should have certain questions in mind that assess the meaning of the article, and the credibility of the source and/or the author. Media literacy is essentially a "decoding process" that allows students to look beyond what is actually being presented to them.
The article goes into the idea of constructivist media decoding. This is a great way students can look at something in the media, and "decode" what the hidden agenda or hidden messages are. Constructivist media decoding requires that students use "document based evidence" to look at different sides of an issue.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry in that it helps me understand how to effectively use different aspects of the media in the classroom. The media can be a great tool in an inquiry based environment. Students can ultimately discover a great many things related to the curriculum by making effective use of the media. Media literacy also requires that students used evidence based approaches to draw different conclusions. In essence, this is what inquiry based learning is.
The key points of this article emphasize the importance of not only incorporating media in lessons but also incorporating lessons that teach students how to appropriately use media today. Media Literacy in today's world is extremely important. Students should be able to identify appropriate and reliable sources for school work or even for personal use. There is so much information on the internet it is important for students to realize they can't believe everything they read and see on the internet. Media Literacy lessons can also be very engaging for modern students who's lives are immersed in media. Assessments on such lessons would be done based on their ability to identify accurate and inaccurate information. It is important for students to remember what they see on the internet is not always law and it is up to them to make their own conclusions.
This article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by implementing media in the classroom it is just one way of differentiating in the classroom. At the end of article it had a quote that said these types of lessons helped get, "students involved who have no intrinsic motivation." It's important to understand all students are different and have their own forms of 'intrinsic motivation' its not that it doesn't exist its that sometimes it takes longer to tap into it with some students. By using media teachers open up a whole new world of motivational techniques that are sure to meet the needs of most of your class.
It is so important that you mentioned to show students how to appropriately use technology. You see so much in schools that they have all the technologies and resources but either fail to use them or use them improperly.
The key points of this article are the merits of using media literacy in the classroom. Basically, especially in a science classroom, students are taught to not only absorb, but to think critically about the media around them. Among other things, teachers challenged students to problematize or find inaccuracies in the media around them and to defend their reasoning behind conjectures they made about the inaccuracies. This proved to be a very effective way for students to think critically about the world around them and even extended into lab settings for the students when they were able to test conjectures that advertisements made.
This helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry, because for students, thinking critically is one of the most essential components of IBL. By integrating the world around them, they not only absorb the information, but interact with and challenge it. This has concrete applications to their actual environments and really brings things down to earth. In fact, teaching students to spot inaccuracies is one of the most effective forms of assessment!
The key points of this article focus on the importance of using media literacy in our classroom to make lessons more relevant for our students. Teachers use this technique to connect the curriculum to real life events and objects. Some students find this very rewarding and much easier to grasp in that they can actually begin to relate to the curriculum. The article then goes into the steps in which a teacher would follow in order to create a lesson containing media literacy. Though it can be hard at times to find a connection between lesson material and a real life event, most creative teachers can manipulate the ideas of an event or curriculum material so it is relevant. Creativity plays a huge role in welcoming media literacy into the classroom. At times it can be hard to actually see the connections between the real world and classroom activity, the creative teachers make it happen.
This article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by granting me with just another method of teaching to add to my collection in which I can use to differentiate in the classroom. As a creative teacher, I already try to bring some kind of real world aspect into every lesson plan I create. With the skills I have learned from this article, I can begin to create more structured and clear media literate lesson plans.
The key points of this article are the use of media literacy inside classrooms. This article shows how using media literacy can help engage students and connect curriculum to real life events. By having students understand where this material can be used in real world applications, they are more likely to be engaged in classroom experiences. I think using media literacy in the classroom can also promote critical thinking and problem solving when used effectively. Students are exposed to media all day long, not knowing how to use it appropriately or if what is being shown through the media even true. Students need to think critically about what is being shown by the media, understand what is being said and still be able to form their own opinions.
This article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because students will be engaged and thinking critically when media literacy is used effectively inside my classroom. Students will be involved in their own learning experience and have a chance to "decode" what is being said in the media.
The key points of this article are incorporating media literacy inside the classroom. In today’s learning environment, students want to learn about topics that interest them. The students want to be engaged and not be lectured. When the topics in class have to deal with real life experiences, teachers tend to see more students engage in conversation. Give students projects or assignments that give them control to working together in groups and reaching conclusions, analyzing evidence and making arguments. The article states that when students were assigned with these types of activities there was engagement from the entire class. Students who usually never raised their hands had good comments. The students become involved in the topic and continued to work even after the bell rang. That was something that teachers love to see. I tend to see teachers are usually finished before the bell rings. We as teachers want the students to keep engaged even until after the bell rings.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because teaching through media literacy can be incorporated in any type of classroom, not just science that was stated in the article. The media literacy strategies have students work with critical thinking skills that have the students use techniques such as conversation, arguments, and reasoning to come up with conclusions to questions or projects proposed to them.
The key points of this article are about how important and beneficial bring media literacy into our lesson plans can be. Media literacy can help our students in thinking critically due to the decoding process that is spoken about. The media is great and has many benefits, but at times, it can also be misleading. Media decoding will help our students examine information from different types of media, apply knowledge while at the same time identifying evidence found in the media, question messages to verify credibility and meaning, and also to draw conclusions. Media literacy as a whole can help bring enthusiasm back into lessons and can really increase participation from all students.
Another point talked about in this article that I found important was the big issue of time management. This is so relevant with teachers today, fearing they wont be able to cover everything on the test. The article states that despite teachers having concerns with time constraints, for the most part, they recognize the fact that lessons will be more successful if content is linked to our students' lives. Students can relate much better to the topic by connecting what they learn in school and their real-world, every day experiences.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it provides me with another tool to allow for inquiry lessons, the media. We are not trying to get our students to be good direction followers, we strive have them critically think and make connections. Introducing media into our lessons can help students dive deeper into real world applications in many aspects, as opposed to memorizing a list of rules. It also calls for students to question whether what they are being presented is true or not through figuring out how credible sources of information are.
This article stresses the importance of medial literacy being taught in the classroom. Lessons revolving around media literacy are useful for many reasons, but two of the biggest are that students must be educated about how media attempts to sway their opinion and they must be able to think critically about what is being presented to them. In today’s society, we are bombarded with media constantly. Between the internet, television, print, billboards, or various other sources, it is hard to find a point in one’s day when they are not viewing an advertisement or some other type of media can influence young minds. By teaching students how to react to this barrage of advertisements, not only will educators be able to help students make sound decisions, but they will also be able to engage their students in a way that is interesting to both the educator and the student. IBL is highly concerned with creating tasks and assessments that while not only allowing the students to explore on their own and demonstrate a deep understanding during the assessment, but the tasks must also be relevant to the students. There is nothing more relevant to students these days then the media that they are in contact with at all times.
The key points of this article are the applicability and the varied uses of lessons based on media literacy. Because students are surrounded by advertisements and are constantly being bombarded with information, it is surely a necessary skill for the twenty first century to decode and verify that information. Media literacy helps build self reliance for forming opinions, justifying them, and conveying them clearly and concisely. Science education often invokes the idea of testing a hypothesis, so the two ideas run rather parallel, but involving media makes students feel more involved. It's a different way of approaching a similar thought process, one useful for creating students who think like scientists, but will engage many students that science education has not.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the entire basis for a media literacy lesson is to have the students decide which questions are important to ask. You provide the class with an idea of what needs to be observed, assessed, and validated or invalidated in the given material - be it a video, article, blog post, etc - and then they must apply these skills to their own issue. Giving students a piece of source material instead of a formatted handout makes them feel more ownership over the direction of the lesson, because they choose the focus points and they make their own decisions, without ever feeling like the teacher planned all of it. Education philosophy tends to use the word "facilitator" often as a word to describe an effective teacher, and media literacy lessons require the teacher to be just that.
The key points of this article are bringing media literacy to the classroom in hopes of engaging students. I also think an important point is to help students differentiate what is real and what is fabrication. Although, perhaps this is a part of media literacy. In today's world, it is so important for teachers to not only utilize technology, but to understand what their students will be facing when they log on with all of the technological gadgets and devices they have these days. When a student looks at a piece of media, more often than not they'll take whatever that is at face value. The magazine "star" automatically comes to mind. This is a tabloid of pure fabrication, with little to no fact backing it up. That said, there are millions of people who believe every word and follow the nonsense religiously. I think the same fear can be held for students if they aren't properly educated about being media literate. It's imperative that we teach our students how to be media and technology savvy.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because now i can really think about how the students I teach may be taking the things they see as truth, and therefore may be improperly educated and also under very inaccurate impressions about certain things that may persuade their logic. It also provides me with a new tools for educating in general, and better prepares me to understand my future students, especially with the rapid growth of media and technology.
The key points of this article are the benefits and techniques of incorporating media literacy into lesson plans. When using media correctly with students, they gain the ability to explain their reasoning clearly and come to conclusions after looking at and analyzing all the data present. A skill students of this generation need to learn at an early stage is the ability to gauge the accuracy of sources because there are many that aren't credible. Students have to feel comfortable with interpreting information given to make sure it is valid. Moreover, students will feel comfortable sharing their conclusions of the document with the class, then should be prepared to defend their analysis. Using leading questions to ensure student understanding is a technique teachers use when incorporating media literacy into their lessons.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because media literacy is another method of teaching through inquiry. Students are learning how to read different types of media on their own to provide that ability which will need to be carried throughout their lives. Advertisements and news articles will always be present and students will have to figure out if the information is to be believed or not. This article teaches inquiry while also addressing media in the classroom.
The key points of this article are:
ReplyDelete-Inquiry based learning is not a new approach to teaching.
-Inquiry based learning started in the 1920’s and was founded in undergraduate math classes.
- It has a long record of success in the classroom as well as a large amount of data supporting its efficiency.
-Inquiry based learning strives to incorporate the subjects we learn in school in to everyday life. It is an attempt to make what students are learning relevant and applicable to them.
- The main goal of inquiry style learning is to teach students how to problem solve.
-It forces students to construct conceptual meaning and rely upon previous knowledge to fix a problem.
-Inquiry based learning has also been proven to provide a more conceptual understanding for students.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it fully explains what inquiry learning is. In education classes we always here teacher say “you have to use inquiry learning in your lesson plans” or “inquiry learning is the new norm in education” but inquiry learning was never fully explained. This articled helped me to fully understand what inquiry learning is, what the main goal of inquiry learning is, and why it is so successful. I also feel that inquiry learning helps to support teaching common core standards in the classroom because inquiry learning promotes real world application of knowledge and problem solving, which are skills that students need for life and college readiness.
The Key points of this article are that inquiry based learning is much more effective then memorization for students. The retention of information by students is also much greater using an inquiry method. Inquiry based learning is very successful in the classroom based on the data observed by the study in the article and it allows students to be problem solvers instead of regurgitators allowing them to connect the ideas from the classroom to real life situations.
ReplyDeleteThe article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows how inquiry can help students make connections between real life problems and what they learn in the classroom. I love the quote by the professor "the less the teacher says the more the student learns" because it summarizes what inquiry based learning is all about. The students have a problem and they need to figure out how to solve it using their knowledge and the teacher or professor is there as a guide to help show them the way without telling them the answer.
The key points of this article are making school relevant to students by bringing in outside, media, sources that are relevant today to help explain our subject area better. This article explains the many benefits of using media in the classroom. However, it is not just enough to use media, media has to be used properly and in a way that allows the student to think critically. Teachers have to carefully select their media documents, but at the same time try and use sources most present to today as possible. Using media also will allow students to interpret sources based on fact and fiction. It is very important for a student to watch something or hear something and be able to determine whether it is credible and reliable or completely inaccurate. Teachers should not use these sources as a way to take up class time either, they need to be meaningful sources, teacher need to make sure the students understand by asking something more than a yes or no answer, students need to use the media sources to help them provide evidence to support their answers.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by implementing media in the classroom we are only broadening the questions we can ask as teachers and the different ways we can have our students think critically about a certain topic or subject. Media plays a large role in history, both present and past, and I think that by allowing more sources in our classrooms our students will not only enjoy the subject area more but be able to determine what is factual and unreliable when researching.
Media literacy is a crucial skill that we need to teach our students. All aspects of the media are effective ways of making lessons more relatable to our students. As teachers, we can use powerful media tools (such as the internet, magazines, videos, etc.) to enhance our lessons and to reinforce the key ideas we hope that students take away from our lessons. However, students need to realize that everything in the media has a hidden agenda. They need to be able to "read between the lines" when using media. The article goes into some strategies for students to use to become more "media literate". For example, when reading an article, students should have certain questions in mind that assess the meaning of the article, and the credibility of the source and/or the author. Media literacy is essentially a "decoding process" that allows students to look beyond what is actually being presented to them.
ReplyDeleteThe article goes into the idea of constructivist media decoding. This is a great way students can look at something in the media, and "decode" what the hidden agenda or hidden messages are. Constructivist media decoding requires that students use "document based evidence" to look at different sides of an issue.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry in that it helps me understand how to effectively use different aspects of the media in the classroom. The media can be a great tool in an inquiry based environment. Students can ultimately discover a great many things related to the curriculum by making effective use of the media. Media literacy also requires that students used evidence based approaches to draw different conclusions. In essence, this is what inquiry based learning is.
The key points of this article emphasize the importance of not only incorporating media in lessons but also incorporating lessons that teach students how to appropriately use media today. Media Literacy in today's world is extremely important. Students should be able to identify appropriate and reliable sources for school work or even for personal use. There is so much information on the internet it is important for students to realize they can't believe everything they read and see on the internet. Media Literacy lessons can also be very engaging for modern students who's lives are immersed in media. Assessments on such lessons would be done based on their ability to identify accurate and inaccurate information. It is important for students to remember what they see on the internet is not always law and it is up to them to make their own conclusions.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by implementing media in the classroom it is just one way of differentiating in the classroom. At the end of article it had a quote that said these types of lessons helped get, "students involved who have no intrinsic motivation." It's important to understand all students are different and have their own forms of 'intrinsic motivation' its not that it doesn't exist its that sometimes it takes longer to tap into it with some students. By using media teachers open up a whole new world of motivational techniques that are sure to meet the needs of most of your class.
It is so important that you mentioned to show students how to appropriately use technology. You see so much in schools that they have all the technologies and resources but either fail to use them or use them improperly.
DeleteThe key points of this article are the merits of using media literacy in the classroom. Basically, especially in a science classroom, students are taught to not only absorb, but to think critically about the media around them. Among other things, teachers challenged students to problematize or find inaccuracies in the media around them and to defend their reasoning behind conjectures they made about the inaccuracies. This proved to be a very effective way for students to think critically about the world around them and even extended into lab settings for the students when they were able to test conjectures that advertisements made.
ReplyDeleteThis helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry, because for students, thinking critically is one of the most essential components of IBL. By integrating the world around them, they not only absorb the information, but interact with and challenge it. This has concrete applications to their actual environments and really brings things down to earth. In fact, teaching students to spot inaccuracies is one of the most effective forms of assessment!
The key points of this article focus on the importance of using media literacy in our classroom to make lessons more relevant for our students. Teachers use this technique to connect the curriculum to real life events and objects. Some students find this very rewarding and much easier to grasp in that they can actually begin to relate to the curriculum. The article then goes into the steps in which a teacher would follow in order to create a lesson containing media literacy. Though it can be hard at times to find a connection between lesson material and a real life event, most creative teachers can manipulate the ideas of an event or curriculum material so it is relevant. Creativity plays a huge role in welcoming media literacy into the classroom. At times it can be hard to actually see the connections between the real world and classroom activity, the creative teachers make it happen.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by granting me with just another method of teaching to add to my collection in which I can use to differentiate in the classroom. As a creative teacher, I already try to bring some kind of real world aspect into every lesson plan I create. With the skills I have learned from this article, I can begin to create more structured and clear media literate lesson plans.
The key points of this article are the use of media literacy inside classrooms. This article shows how using media literacy can help engage students and connect curriculum to real life events. By having students understand where this material can be used in real world applications, they are more likely to be engaged in classroom experiences. I think using media literacy in the classroom can also promote critical thinking and problem solving when used effectively. Students are exposed to media all day long, not knowing how to use it appropriately or if what is being shown through the media even true. Students need to think critically about what is being shown by the media, understand what is being said and still be able to form their own opinions.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because students will be engaged and thinking critically when media literacy is used effectively inside my classroom. Students will be involved in their own learning experience and have a chance to "decode" what is being said in the media.
The key points of this article are incorporating media literacy inside the classroom. In today’s learning environment, students want to learn about topics that interest them. The students want to be engaged and not be lectured. When the topics in class have to deal with real life experiences, teachers tend to see more students engage in conversation. Give students projects or assignments that give them control to working together in groups and reaching conclusions, analyzing evidence and making arguments. The article states that when students were assigned with these types of activities there was engagement from the entire class. Students who usually never raised their hands had good comments. The students become involved in the topic and continued to work even after the bell rang. That was something that teachers love to see. I tend to see teachers are usually finished before the bell rings. We as teachers want the students to keep engaged even until after the bell rings.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because teaching through media literacy can be incorporated in any type of classroom, not just science that was stated in the article. The media literacy strategies have students work with critical thinking skills that have the students use techniques such as conversation, arguments, and reasoning to come up with conclusions to questions or projects proposed to them.
The key points of this article are about how important and beneficial bring media literacy into our lesson plans can be. Media literacy can help our students in thinking critically due to the decoding process that is spoken about. The media is great and has many benefits, but at times, it can also be misleading. Media decoding will help our students examine information from different types of media, apply knowledge while at the same time identifying evidence found in the media, question messages to verify credibility and meaning, and also to draw conclusions. Media literacy as a whole can help bring enthusiasm back into lessons and can really increase participation from all students.
ReplyDeleteAnother point talked about in this article that I found important was the big issue of time management. This is so relevant with teachers today, fearing they wont be able to cover everything on the test. The article states that despite teachers having concerns with time constraints, for the most part, they recognize the fact that lessons will be more successful if content is linked to our students' lives. Students can relate much better to the topic by connecting what they learn in school and their real-world, every day experiences.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it provides me with another tool to allow for inquiry lessons, the media. We are not trying to get our students to be good direction followers, we strive have them critically think and make connections. Introducing media into our lessons can help students dive deeper into real world applications in many aspects, as opposed to memorizing a list of rules. It also calls for students to question whether what they are being presented is true or not through figuring out how credible sources of information are.
This article stresses the importance of medial literacy being taught in the classroom. Lessons revolving around media literacy are useful for many reasons, but two of the biggest are that students must be educated about how media attempts to sway their opinion and they must be able to think critically about what is being presented to them. In today’s society, we are bombarded with media constantly. Between the internet, television, print, billboards, or various other sources, it is hard to find a point in one’s day when they are not viewing an advertisement or some other type of media can influence young minds. By teaching students how to react to this barrage of advertisements, not only will educators be able to help students make sound decisions, but they will also be able to engage their students in a way that is interesting to both the educator and the student. IBL is highly concerned with creating tasks and assessments that while not only allowing the students to explore on their own and demonstrate a deep understanding during the assessment, but the tasks must also be relevant to the students. There is nothing more relevant to students these days then the media that they are in contact with at all times.
ReplyDeleteThe key points of this article are the applicability and the varied uses of lessons based on media literacy. Because students are surrounded by advertisements and are constantly being bombarded with information, it is surely a necessary skill for the twenty first century to decode and verify that information. Media literacy helps build self reliance for forming opinions, justifying them, and conveying them clearly and concisely. Science education often invokes the idea of testing a hypothesis, so the two ideas run rather parallel, but involving media makes students feel more involved. It's a different way of approaching a similar thought process, one useful for creating students who think like scientists, but will engage many students that science education has not.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the entire basis for a media literacy lesson is to have the students decide which questions are important to ask. You provide the class with an idea of what needs to be observed, assessed, and validated or invalidated in the given material - be it a video, article, blog post, etc - and then they must apply these skills to their own issue. Giving students a piece of source material instead of a formatted handout makes them feel more ownership over the direction of the lesson, because they choose the focus points and they make their own decisions, without ever feeling like the teacher planned all of it. Education philosophy tends to use the word "facilitator" often as a word to describe an effective teacher, and media literacy lessons require the teacher to be just that.
The key points of this article are bringing media literacy to the classroom in hopes of engaging students. I also think an important point is to help students differentiate what is real and what is fabrication. Although, perhaps this is a part of media literacy. In today's world, it is so important for teachers to not only utilize technology, but to understand what their students will be facing when they log on with all of the technological gadgets and devices they have these days. When a student looks at a piece of media, more often than not they'll take whatever that is at face value. The magazine "star" automatically comes to mind. This is a tabloid of pure fabrication, with little to no fact backing it up. That said, there are millions of people who believe every word and follow the nonsense religiously. I think the same fear can be held for students if they aren't properly educated about being media literate. It's imperative that we teach our students how to be media and technology savvy.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because now i can really think about how the students I teach may be taking the things they see as truth, and therefore may be improperly educated and also under very inaccurate impressions about certain things that may persuade their logic. It also provides me with a new tools for educating in general, and better prepares me to understand my future students, especially with the rapid growth of media and technology.