i loved this quote from michael wesch on why he is moving away from literacy teaching as primary to integration of participatory media literacy.
We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them – that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create.
to back him up, i've got a little marshall mcluhan again. that's 2x in a day. gotta be a record.
as someone who is doing some of this with my youth ministry i am grateful for some of the words & perspective to communicate this idea. i also like the rheingold quote.
If print culture shaped the environment in which the Enlightenment
blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution,
participatory media might similarly shape the cognitive and social
environments in which twenty first century life will take place (a
shift in the way our culture operates). For this reason, participatory
media literacy is not another subject to be shoehorned into the
curriculum as job training for knowledge workers.
blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution,
participatory media might similarly shape the cognitive and social
environments in which twenty first century life will take place (a
shift in the way our culture operates). For this reason, participatory
media literacy is not another subject to be shoehorned into the
curriculum as job training for knowledge workers.