Music Concierge - Songza. TweetShrink. It’s Not a Pipe: Teaching Kids to Read the Media. The image projected on the screen in the front of the classroom is Magritte's painting of a pipe, including the words, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe. " I ask the students to each briefly make a guess why they think Magritte wrote that, since the painting is obviously a pipe.
Some volunteers share their guesses with the class. One student nails it. "It's not a pipe; it's a drawing of a pipe! " "Good, so what does this have to do with politics, advertising, and the media? " The full title of the unit is "Politics, the News and Advertising: Critical Consciousness and the Media. " Of course it's a priority that all students must be taught to be literate in their written and spoken language, the language of words. Candidates for Sale Advertising, political parties and the news media continually use visual images to affect our thinking and our feelings. In this particular unit students watch The Living Room Candidate, Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2008.
Sterling Cooper & You You get the idea. Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives. Overview of responses In a survey about the future of the internet, technology experts and stakeholders were fairly evenly split as to whether the younger generation’s always-on connection to people and information will turn out to be a net positive or a net negative by 2020.
They said many of the young people growing up hyperconnected to each other and the mobile Web and counting on the internet as their external brain will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who will do well in key respects. At the same time, these experts predicted that the impact of networked living on today’s young will drive them to thirst for instant gratification, settle for quick choices, and lack patience.
A number of the survey respondents argued that it is vital to reform education and emphasize digital literacy. These findings come from an opt-in, online survey of a diverse but non-random sample of 1,021 technology stakeholders and critics. Here is a sampling of their predictions and arguments: Hyperconnected and Always On. Last month I was lucky enough to attend a presentation by Dr. Larry Rosen, who studies the psychology of technology. He discussed the six generations and the six technology waves. The six generations are as follows and are each characterized by their preferred method of communicating: The silent generation born 1925-46 - prefer to communicate face to face The baby boomers born 1946-64 - also prefer to communicate face to face, by phone or by email Generation X born 1965-79 - they communicate by mobile phone, email and IM The NetGeneration born 1980-89 - are defined by the internet.
The iGeneration born 1990-99 - are defined by individual mobile technologies and they prefer to text. Generation C - born since 2000 - see technology as part of their core - they are called this because their lives revolve around communication, connection and collaboration. The generations are getting shorter - at one time they spanned 20 years, now they are down to less than 10. Multimedia: Sometimes a pictures isn't worth 1,000 Words by Federico Padovan on Prezi. Socialized - Using Social Media for PD by Federico Padovan on Prezi.