Implication of Medias in Teaching and Learning Process

This week video was introducing Mr. Henry Jenkins, USC media professor. He talked about the implication of media in teaching and learning. In general, he discuss about how school are regressing and not evolving in the technology direction. He says so because most of school have blocked a lot of information available throughout the Internet. He gave the example of Mobidic who’s blocked because it contains the word “dic” in it. He also mentioned that most of the school has blocked the website YouTube.com and this shouldn’t be so because as teacher, YouTube is a great source of information to pass videos in your class. Mr. Jenkins also stated that community are saying to students that what they learn outside school should remain out of school, so students are making the link that…what is learn in school should remain only in school but this is not the case. Our generation is all about technology so even though you’re a teaching without skills in technology, you should let your student teach you. There is also another problem with technology; the schools are not ready to give control to students, families or teachers. They need to control everything so in order to experience fully the new technologies; we need a school supportive with these tools. Within the learning process, teachers (and other person) should include an interactive way to integrate the knowledge of “plagiarism” and “authorship.” With all the information accessible over the Internet, students must understand that this stuff is copyrighted and does not belong to them.

After watching the video, I am perplexed about what Mr. Jenkins said about some topics. The major point is that school should have complete access to the Internet and also YouTube. I have to admit that as a teacher, YouTube is primordial, but for the teacher only. Students shouldn’t be allowed to go on the YouTube because I am pretty sure that they will check other things than what you want them to listen…and we all want them to watch the new video of LMFAO when they are walking around in speedos! Also, I don’t think students are mature enough to give them total access to the information on the Internet; yes it is quite shocking that you cannot access information about Mobidic, but this is better than knowing that your students are learning about other kind of “dick”!

 

Even though I don’t agree with part, I totally agree with the rest of the video. Students should teach teachers about new technology. There is a way to do it without losing the control of your class. Although today we are up to date with technology, this is a growing environment and at one point we won’t be up to date anymore so we should let our future students teach us about this. This way we keep track on technology and at the same time students could feel valorized.