The Seven great debates in the Media Literacy Movement
First of all, I want to start off by saying that doing this assignment in dial up has been very challenging. I viewed the videos at school last week and wanted to review them at home today beforee I wrote. I have been downloading quick time for more than an hour now, so I will need to respond to the videos based on what i remember from last week. from now on, I will do these assignments at school.
The first video was very interesting. I felt uncomfortable at times as I watched young inner city kids trying to reach out to these established politicians. It was embarassing to watch Norm Coleman, or Walter Mondale try to be cool and accept the "Bling" from these kids.
I had a hard time really understanding the message of the video. I realize that in the last election Minnesota was a battleground. Perhaps the idea behind the video was that any exposure is good exposure and if the young urban citizens vote it could really change the results.
I can't remember who made the video and why, but I can say thatI think the approach that was used most as number 4. "Should Media Literacy have a more explicit political Agenda?" It was evident that there was an agenda. I believe it was moslty exposure and education.
The second video was about the student who was misrepresented on the news. This almost seemed like and after school special. There was such an injustice and she needed make things right. She used the most common way to make change, like going to the higher ups at the news station. Finally she used deception to get the crew back out to her school and hijacked the microphone, and she was vindicated. I would say that protectionism was the approach that was mostly explored in this video. I suspect that the news would not get away with changing someone's words that much.
I could relate mostly to debate 2. I taught video production during my student teaching almost 20 years ago. I can relate to the idea that students who are not successful in most classes seem to be stuck into these type of classes to play or escape. This not only happened during my student teaching experience, but it is happening at my school, Edina. The class has gone through several teachers, and the facilities are lacking. However, I have seen a wonderful model of a video production class and curriculum at Eastview High school in Apple Valley where the students produce a weekly live magazine show. They have a state of the art studio and control room. There are computer editing stations for 20 students, and the students rotate from station to station to learn all of the aspects of production. A new video production lab is being built at my school Edina, and I am excited to see how we will support this new facility.
The debate that I least connected with was debate 3. Should media literacy focus on pop culture? I am really torn here. I can see both sides of the issue. I think bringing in pop culture will open the eyes of some kids who might not be interested, however I think that we cannot downplay traditional texts and literature.
The first video was very interesting. I felt uncomfortable at times as I watched young inner city kids trying to reach out to these established politicians. It was embarassing to watch Norm Coleman, or Walter Mondale try to be cool and accept the "Bling" from these kids.
I had a hard time really understanding the message of the video. I realize that in the last election Minnesota was a battleground. Perhaps the idea behind the video was that any exposure is good exposure and if the young urban citizens vote it could really change the results.
I can't remember who made the video and why, but I can say thatI think the approach that was used most as number 4. "Should Media Literacy have a more explicit political Agenda?" It was evident that there was an agenda. I believe it was moslty exposure and education.
The second video was about the student who was misrepresented on the news. This almost seemed like and after school special. There was such an injustice and she needed make things right. She used the most common way to make change, like going to the higher ups at the news station. Finally she used deception to get the crew back out to her school and hijacked the microphone, and she was vindicated. I would say that protectionism was the approach that was mostly explored in this video. I suspect that the news would not get away with changing someone's words that much.
I could relate mostly to debate 2. I taught video production during my student teaching almost 20 years ago. I can relate to the idea that students who are not successful in most classes seem to be stuck into these type of classes to play or escape. This not only happened during my student teaching experience, but it is happening at my school, Edina. The class has gone through several teachers, and the facilities are lacking. However, I have seen a wonderful model of a video production class and curriculum at Eastview High school in Apple Valley where the students produce a weekly live magazine show. They have a state of the art studio and control room. There are computer editing stations for 20 students, and the students rotate from station to station to learn all of the aspects of production. A new video production lab is being built at my school Edina, and I am excited to see how we will support this new facility.
The debate that I least connected with was debate 3. Should media literacy focus on pop culture? I am really torn here. I can see both sides of the issue. I think bringing in pop culture will open the eyes of some kids who might not be interested, however I think that we cannot downplay traditional texts and literature.
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