I think that quote sums everything up perfectly. In today’s world everything is changing so fast. We are bombarded with so many images and sounds, it’s a wonder we can even keep up. I know from my own personal experience that with everything advancing so quickly I tend to lose my place with what is cutting edge and what isn’t.
This article, found on medialit.org, helps to educate the educator. With this fast paced world of ever changing media, educators need to be able to keep up with the climate we live in and learn to work with it. The article gives lesson plans, suggestions on collaborative learning, and teaching tips. It is up to us, the educators, to find the usefullness of this multi-media world, “learn, unlearn, and relearn,” all that we know and don’t know, and prepare our students to be flexible, decipher the usefullness of the media at hand, and to generate productive, thoughtful work and information from that media.
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