Quote:
“Even though students are spending more and more time on the Internet and teachers increasingly expect their students to do assignments online, digital media literacy skills are vastly underrepresented in the curriculum for all but the most advanced students (as, indeed, are offline critical-thinking and reading-comprehension skills).” (David, 2009, para. 4).
Comment:
In the first paragraph, David (2009) poses the question, “Can schools provide the skills students need to become media literate in a digital world?” This is the reason that I chose the quote above. We need to carefully analyze what is being offered to students within the current curriculum that will encourage development of the skills students need to become proficient in the use of digital media literacy skills. But to back up one step, students in pre-service education programs, as well, must make sure that they are exposed to curriculum that develops digital media literacy skills in order to teach those skills to future students. I agree with David (2009) who notes that it is certainly important to make sure that digital media literacy skills are embraced within the curriculum in order to develop critical thinking skills needed for communication in a global society.
Reference:
David, J. L. “Teaching Media Literacy.” Educational Leadership 66:6: 84-86. Web. 5
Oct. 2011.
Related Resource:
This is a link to a slideshare from a teacher in Sydney , Australia
Here is the link. Enjoy the video!
I totally agree with you and what your saying I think teachers should teach this subject and everything that includes in this article. Also your quote really emphasizes what your saying in this post !
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I know that it is optional or it was when I was in high school to even take a computer class. I believe that it should be a requirment no matter what. These children will be our future, and our future consist of technology.
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