Watch two or more of the following videos and then leave a comment for the group to read. Please consider these prompts:
•What connections do you see between media literacy and information and communication technologies (ICT)?
•What possibilities and/or concerns are raised for you by this material?
•What will our students need to operate effectively in 2037? (this fall's incoming Kindergarten student will be about 35 years of age)
•What are some main differences between 20th century and 21st century education?
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The 21st century requires radical changes in how and what we teach our children-- and these changes are not really happening yet.
In this techno-savvy world, and for the future, we need to help our students to be digital learners, engaged, involved, and doing collaborative work, sharing their voices. We need to continue to find ways to incorporate Media Literacy across the curriculum as a means to communicate and share information, as well as get feedback via BLOGS, wikis, and more.
1. One of the videos discussed the need for "new teacher DNA" because the past educational construct was created out of an industrial age where teachers needed to deconstruct and rebuild for students.
Are we saying this isn't true in a 21st century classroom?
2. The video which listed several statistics discussed how we need to be looking forward. Yet the uniting actions we all still do, regardless of advances in technology, are to "remember...analyze...evaluate [and] collaborate".
So why as educators do we behave like we are reinventing the wheel?
In viewing the videos, "The Machine is Us/ing Us" and "21st Century Pedagogy," I notice similarities in the ideas that we are working towards building new foundations. New foundations in the way we teach, think, and operate are not only available, but necessary in order to surpass previous generations. User driven content: tagging, organizing, and filtering in Web 2.0 is a reality and without teaching children what it is and how to effectively and appropriately use it we as teachers are failing students.
Teachers cannot afford to continue to exist and perform with 20th century mindsets and still expect to adequately serve our children. Teaching and learning must adapt, as students have, and embrace the capabilities of technology today and in the future.
My concern is that this technology cannot simply be utilized in a single course, but embraced in all grades and levels of learning so that it becomes embedded in the way we teach and live. How can school districts, already pushed to the limits of available funding, possibly provide the needed equipment, time, and professional development for teacher to effectively utilize these resources. Further, how can institutions of higher education be motivated to prepare future teachers ahead of time, if we are unsure of where the technology will be when they graduate?
It seems like the "new DNA" of the 21st century classroom will involve a lot more student input. This will require teachers to learn a new set of skills. Teachers will need to become experts on how to facilitate and guide their students' creativity.
I watched "21 century pedagogy" and "Vision of K-12 children today"
I am not entirely sure how to define ICT. I imagine that includes computers and digital product of all kinds (audio and visual, maybe others?). the connections between ICT and media literacy i might observe in these examples include how the technology allows the concepts to be presented -- through stills, motions, zooming in/out, the use of music, the use of narrative (or lack thereof). the concepts themselves can be delivered in different ways (e.g. the first video got its point across by focusing of groups of children, and the second by focusing on individual children).
Possibilities: I agree with the narrator in 21 c pedagogy: we do need to develop a new construct, and it will evolve more naturally (IMO) as digital natives mature and teach themselves. not that there is no hope of immigrants but... we have our feet in different worlds (which also has its strenghts).
Concerns: I feel that pieces such as "k - 12 students" have a didactic and prescriptive edge to them. there are different ways to look at the numbers, (63% of my teachers don't ask me to create with technology) and I want to ask: how was that measured, what other types of creativity was encouraged? that piece felt heavy handed, but I was struck by the very real children who were included.
2037? argh. the ability to keep an open mind, work collaboratively, see teaching and learning and a continuum where the teacher must also learn and the learner teach.
differences between 20/21 century ed --i think the 21 c pedagogy got that right. we are moving towards a new construct. information is not imparted, but collaboratively investigated; it's not static, it's a moving target.
It seems to me that teaching critical thinking is the key to spanning from the 20 to the 21st century and beyond and is a key link between media literacy and constantly evolving technologies.
I was also struck by the notion that teachers do not need to re-invent the wheel -- this model is still useful, but the application of its principles needs to evolve.
I think that one of the things that can be different is that we can gather more feedback in different ways from our students.
addendum: The big question, in terms of adapting, is seems to be HOW.
I was puzzled that so much of the information conveyed by the videos that were in text. It was difficult to read the text (even the large text) on the screen rapidly enough to assimilate it. The videos required high level reading skills and in that were not as effective as I had hoped.
I enjoyed watching “A Vision of K-12 Students Today” because it showed how providing media literacy education will help students become more engaged citizens. While watching the video, I started thinking about how one’s access to media literacy might represent a disparity between populations… Students who don't have access to media literacy education programs are obviously at a disadvantage.
I watched the first three videos posted, and they all show the tremendous progress in technology that has occurred so recently. These videos do raise the concerns of how to include these new technologies into the classroom and how students can benefit from them. The second and third videos, especially, show the gap of technical knowledge between students and their teachers. The current (and future!) technology has tremendous potential to help students whom have different learning styles and/or disabilities to grasp the material in more conducive ways. The trick to this change to learning and teaching, I believe, will be a more give-and-take relationship between students and teachers. My concern is that if teachers educate their students the way that they were taught, they will not implement the use of technology (podcasts, blogs, smartboards,...), which will leave their students at a severe disadvantage later on in life.
Currently and in the future, our students will need the ability to communicate effectively with others; whether this communication occurs face-to-face, through letters, or online. Students will need to be able to express themselves clearly. They will also need to have basic knowledge of the tools the internet offers; how to find what they need; etc.
Differences between 20th and 21st century education: resources available! Students have everything that they need to learn at their fingertips. They just need to learn how to access it and use it to their advantage.
The three videos I watched were mostly about motivating students and, to a lesser degree, empowering them through technology. Often the two are confused. Motivating is not empowering unless it takes place within a context of gaining important skills and information relevant to needed content.
Just as what you teach, you learn, what you create, you think about critically. So it is important to “transform education through technology” by developing assignments that require students to produce their own media messages.
With ever-expanding and newer technology as ubiquitous as it is, students are pleading to learn. Teaching methodology needs to change, to keep up with the technology. Information is power.The way information was presented in the past was the best that was available at the time. Times require change.
"Pay Attention" is directed towards teachers. It's a wake up call to get teacher's to use the technology that their students already no how to use such as cell phones to collect data.
I am concerned that teachers think they are integrating technology by assigning student's power points. The students aren't creating anything new they are just rehashing what's already been said and presenting it to their classmates. This video asks, "Do your students, Remember, Understand, Analyze, Apply, Evaluate and Create?" (Blooms)That is the difference between 20th and 21st Century education. We need teachers to provide students with choices of medium that fits their learning abilities best and have them create their interpretation... be it artwork, video production, or surveys thru text messages.
I see information and communication technologies as a means, a tool to evaluating, interpreting and creating media.
Why were these videos selected and placed in this specific order?
Startling facts about how technology is dictating our lives and surpassing human capability is presented in "Did You Know 2.0". Media literacy is necessary in dealing with our technologically dependent world.
Is there a danger in this newer style of cooperative, interactive learning, for learning to be a little too 'relativistic'? What role should the teacher still play as an authority, who is sometimes needed to convey 'correct' information?
I watched "21 Century Pedagogy" and "Vision of K-12 Children Today"
I felt that these two videos really made clear the potential for critical and digital media literacy education for our students. As a tool, it seems to actively engage all students with the material, which is what the students in “Vision of K-12 Children Today” where explicitly asking for. I also agree with “Vision of K-12 Children Today” that students should have more of an input in their education as well as actively assisting in their peers’ education. I also think it is great if students can use this information to then produce something, to provide the students with a hands-on project so they can implement their classroom learning. I can see this as being so motivating, engaging, and enjoyable for students.
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