As a new teacher, I believe it is important to incorporate media in the classroom for many reasons. Below are 2 reasons why I believe this: The 1st reason: because students are likely surrounded by media in their every day lives outside of the classroom...at home, in the mall, at the grocery store, driving down the roads (billboards), when listening to the radio, etc. The 2nd reason: because as educators we should take advantage of media in the classroom and educate students on how to use it in a beneficial way, and educate them on the many positive things that media has to offer! As an educator, I want to change students' feelings about school, I want students to enjoy my lessons and want to come to school! By incorporating media and technology into my lessons, I can engage my students and make them enjoy the lessons I am teaching. In order to do this though, I believe it is important to teach my students to become media literate first. This meaning that they need to understand media and how to use it. In order to do this, I can use the media triangle to help teach students and help them become more media literate. Below is an image of a media triangle that I created in my media and digital literacy class in university. It includes many aspects of media, including the 3 arms that media literacy revolves around: media text, audience, and production. Want to know how to use the media triangle in your classroom? The hyperlink above (media triangle) brings you to someone else's blog where they have actually created media triangle posters dedicated to each division (primary, junior, intermediate). Post these posters around your classroom, or better yet, create one with your students! When you have this posted in the classroom, students are able to revisit it and ask themselves the questions on the poster to help them understand texts that they are reading online in the classroom. As educators we should be providing our students with the best knowledge and education, and we should be helping them become literate in both the offline and online world. By allowing students access to questions that they can ask, students will become better learners as they know that they are in a safe place and can ask questions, and they are provided with the questions to ask to further their learning in a certain topic of interest to them!
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Helen DeWaard
1/22/2017 10:08:40 am
You've made some critical links to the importance of teaching media literacy in the classroom. It's not just because students are immersed in a media rich world that makes this essential teaching. It's a mechanism to engage students in deeper discovery about why media matters. The media triangle is a great starting point for those conversations.
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