Media and Public Voice
July 22, 2008 janesnowboy
I think it was two years ago that we had a teacher that taught media literacy as a subject. She started a website for our school. Her class helped her start it up. She said that it was really difficult,because she have right resources to help with the class. Some of she needed was taken out from the computers. She only used powerpoint and publisher to use her class. I don’t know if the website is still there. This was only time media literacy was ever taught at our school.Here in my community we have a few guys that are using the media and the public voice. They are using the website YOUTUBE to upload the videos they made. These guys are out school and some of them didn’t graduate from high school. They are in their late teens. These guys taught themselves how to use the computer and how to upload their videos. They have a few videos on youtube. This shows that teenagers can do anything with the computer even though nobody helped them and they taught themselves how to podcast on the internet. Learning to use blogs,wikis,digital storytelling,podcasting,and video making is media of self-expression within a context of “public voice” should be introduced and evaluated in school curriculm,after school programs, and informal learning communties. If youth today are to become effective citizens in the emerging era of the public network of the computer. I think the Cree School Board should take a good look at media literacy education. This is our future generation is going. They could do a survey done on it and they could ask the students what they think about it. This could really help them in their learning. Media has really changed and it is impacting everyday aspect and experiences of our lives. Cree School Board should look at the needs and to take the responsibility for helping the students. They can master the skills and knowledge that they need to function in a hypermediated environment.


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