“Children today are completely comfortable with the visual bombardment of simultaneous images, text, and sounds because, for them, such experiences provide relevant and compelling experiences that can convey more information in a few seconds than can be communicated by reading an entire book. Moreover, these new media are not just designed for passive viewing, because passive viewing just doesn’t cut it. This generation no longer wants just to be the audience; they want to be the actors. They expect, want, and need interactive information, interactive resources, interactive communications, and relevant, real-life experiences. ”
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Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast!
Digital Natives
– like to parallel process and multi-task
– prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite
– prefer random access (like hypertext)
– thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards
– prefer games to “serious” work.
Today’s average college grads have spent:
– over 10,000 hours playing video games
– over 20,000 hours watching TV
– over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received
– over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones
– over 500,000 commercials
– less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading
Media Tips
-Start small. Find one movie, song, or news source and incorporate it into your class. Expand once you are comfortable.
-Provide a clear link between what you want your students to learn and the media. Care must be taken provide the proper learning context.
-It takes time to integrate media effectively into a course. This is not edutainment, it is the conscious use of media to enable students to learn more.
-Use the subtitles feature for visual media. This is especially useful in focusing student attention on the words being said.
-Be prepared. Technology does not work 100% of the time so have a back-up plan. If the media equipment does not work, go to plan B and continue on with your class without missing a beat.
-Evaluate student understanding. Students respond to incentives. If you require them to write a reaction paper, take a quiz, or place questions on your exams that relate to the media content they will pay more attention and learn more in the process.
-Stay legal.
PBS Learning Media- FREE for teachers
Brain Pop, Brain Pop Jr. and Brain Pop ESL : Only parts of this resource are free.
Study Jams- Scholastic: FREE for any user.
Learn 360 : This is a PBS resource and your district will need to subscribe to it.
Common Sense Media: Another excellent free resource.
Khan Academy: A wonderful free resource
NeoK12: Free educational videos and lessons
Teacher Tube: Free- viewable in most districts
You Tube:You can create your own youtube channel or one for your district or department. You can even set the channel up to be private.Zamzar: -this site will allow you to download and convert media files to a file that your district's server will support. Have you ever seen a video clip on YouTube and seen inappropriate ads, or comments posted? Perhaps the related videos on the right-hand side of the screen displayed a clip that your students should not be viewing. This link will fix that problem. View Pure
Watch Know and Learn: Free resource
Discovery Education: formerly United Streaming and Safari Montage. Paid district resources.
Growing Up Mobile
Brain Breaks are very popular in the primary grades and a positive way to energize a group after lunch or relax and calm a class.
Wonderopolis is another great resource teachers are using during transitional times.
Scoring Guide for your media reflection.
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