Chris Brogan, A-list blogger and social media extraordinaire, just posted a video about what the future of media might look like.
What Chris came up with, rings familiar to the themes discussed in this years Horizon Report (A MUST read for every educator.) If we are to help students and education as an institution take advantage of what the online world allows, we need to seriously take note of what Chris and many others are saying.
Chris has come up with seven ideas on how the future of media will evolve.
basic purpose of education: personal, cultural, economic. Need to get away from the "utility" view. We're living in the most tumultuous time in history.
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is "Our Choice," Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth."
This site provides a breakdown of videos within the Technology Integration Matrix by grade level. Some videos involve students from both middle and high school grades and some involve students from both middle and elementary grades.
I am sure someone told Gutenberg that they would never read his printed text because they loved the feel and smell of hand written scrolls.
To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and has the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.
Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and analyze information using digital technology.
educators need to model learning. Not being media literate in the 21st Century is a very POOR model.
A teacher’s content expertise is a small rival to the internet. Teaching and guiding kids to harness that content should be the goal.
It is a professional responsibility! Media Literacy requires people enter a world that gives up a great deal of control. Many educators are not prepared for that.