Media Literacy
I am a recent convert to believing in the possibilities that the media and technology can play in the classroom. In the past, I did not have a large amount of exposure to using such things as a blog, a wiki, or an RSS. The only things I did on the computer were check my email and write papers using Word. I always imagined myself as a teacher who would be somewhat ‘old school’ in that I would mainly use the traditional materials of pen, paper, and written text in my classroom.
In the past year through various coursework, however, I have been introduced to and gained experience with digital literacy and its possibilities in the classroom. It is amazing how many doors it can open with students. Such possibilities include class blogs where students can explore texts further and online connections to students from another country that improve student writing skills and cultural understandings.
As a teacher, it is important to recognize that students are already involved in an online digital world, which Henry Jenkins describes as ‘participatory culture’, “a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for create and sharing one’s creations, and informal mentorship….� Many students participate in this culture through My Space, Facebook, Blogging, Live Journal, etc. We need to help students build on the skills and knowledge needed to improve these relationships with the changing world.
Helping students grow in the skills and knowledge necessary for improving digital literacy skills will involve much change in your curriculum, “Employing these various digital writing tools entails some major shifts in your own role as teacher� (Beach). We need to face this change with an open mind.
In a class last semester, we collaboratively created a Wiki under the guidance of Richard Beach to support his book Teaching Media Literacy. com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities. This Wiki demonstrates the possibilities that media literacy can have in the classroom.
Click on the link below to view this online book.
http://teachingmedialiteracy.pbwiki.com/MediaLiteracyWikibook
Comments
Hey Rebekah,
I'm so relieved to hear that a fellow cohorter also secretly thought she would teach in an "old-school" way. Technology just kind of overwhelmed me, and my experience had been such that it always took way more time to learn how to use a piece of technology than it did to produce something with it. This year in the U of M program, however, has changed my view of things, and I look forward to having my students blog and create wiki pages as an option (at least) to the traditional paper!
Posted by: Katie | March 6, 2007 12:46 PM
Hi Rebekah. I agree with you that as teachers we should recognize that many of our students are already involved in online communitites and the Internet. However, I am extremely nervous about introducing technology into my classroom. No matter how hard I try to be technology savvy and try to stay on top of the new discoveries in the online community I can't keep up. I'm scared of how much I will hinder my students' learning if they aren't able to come to me for help with technology. I'm not quite sure how to overcome my fear....
Posted by: LeShon | March 7, 2007 8:30 PM
Thanks for sharing Rebekah. My days will be less complete without your weekly blog posts. Odd that we are both semi-against using them in classes, eh?
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