- Closing the 'gap' between the way schools teach our students and the outside world teaches our students. For example, schools are basically all print. The outside of our schools have so much more in store. The students have multimedia, visual communication, electronics, and virtual realities.
- The fact that we now have new literacies. Not only is there a new literacy definition, but there are multiple literacies that our students are facing. For example, computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, television literacy, and visual literacy are all new literacies that we are facing.
- Teaching the students about all these literacies is another key point to this article. Basically, we, as educators, need to realize that we need specific trainings, time, and patience to teach this and to understand how to relate our core subjects to this way of learning for our students.
I absolutely agree with this article. I am a brand new teacher and I have three subjects that I teach. I teach math, which is my absolute favorite, social studies, which I know I will be struggling with, and English, which I am nervous/excited for especially with these technology courses. I feel very strongly about being there for the students, and there is no way that any one can be there or help these students unless they know how to speak or how to connect with them. There are so many new things that these students know and do that we need to be up on top of these things to relate to them. Therefore, I feel that we do need to encourage our fellow teachers to go to trainings and educate our youth with these literacies and try, try, try to close that gap as little or as much as we can.
I feel that the media has a lot to do with the self-esteem in women and violence in men. The main, if not the only, place that girls/women see tiny, beautiful, tall, muscular women is through media. Whether it be movies, television, magazines, internet, or news articles, they are seeing this through media. However, there is more of the violence going on in the 'real world', I feel, than the 'perfect woman'. However, I see that there is so much violence in movies, television, internet, video games (especially), and even songs - that our boys and men are seeing that this is obviously a trend.
The videos are exactly how I feel, as well as many other people feel, about the media. I know that we need to teach our students about the media and explain to them how exactly they need to analyze or evaluate it. However, it is almost as if media tries to trick them. They trick them into thinking that it is okay to be as thin as a rail or as mean and hurtful as the bad guys they see on TV. Us as educators need to touch upon all of this so that they know that this is false information and that they need to look between the lines, so to speak. It is important for us as educators and their elders to let them know that even though WE may even be bribed with the media, we need to come to a point and realize, this is not what we really need. We need to analyze and evaluate it and think to ourselves - is this really what society want? Or is this was media WANTS us to want/think.
Sources:
Semali, L. (2001). New LiteraciesL Defining New LIteracies in Curricular Practice. Retrieved from http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/semali1/index.html
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3exzMPT4nGI
Killing Us Softly - Woman are used like pieces of meat Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KVmcmePRqSk
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