Uncertainties
Well, I am not entirely sure what we are suppose to put in our blogs. I have been trying to come up with some curriculum ideas to use in my classroom and to use for the final project for this course. It is still new and we haven't read much yet so I maybe shouldn't be panicking yet that I don't have an idea brewing. Part of me would like to go out of my comfort zone and perhaps look at something in an area I usually do not venture but then I wonder if I would ever really use it. I kind of want to look into creating a unit for my sophomores about propaganda using the Holocaust for starters and then branching from there into modern day propaganda. With the elections coming it would be great timing for working with news media. At the same time that doesn't sound terribly exciting either - I don't know. I think I should try to think outside the box a bit and come up with something different from the norm.
I have enjoyed what we have been reading in class. I think the US is so terribly far behind in many aspects of education and media is just another area but one that should be moved up on the priority list. Perhaps we can take some emphasis off testing and use that time and money to put to better use in the area of media and media education. Data driven decisions sounds great, but we have all this data telling us what we should be doing and we don't follow any of it because of the almighty dollar.
Wow, I am going in a bunch of directions here.
Well, I will continue to think about a topic and hope it is something great that I will use and enjoy using and students will benefit from working on...