School Media Challenges

 Hello everyone or anyone, welcome to my blog. Over the course of the past few years, teaching has had an increase in challenges. One specific thing is media technology. Everyone knows the reference "iPad kid," which is pretty much a kid who spends every second they can on an iPad and essentially can not live without it. Now knowing this, some teachers might be able to use it to their advantage and find helpful and fun videos to help assist their learning subjects. However, there are also not so great ways of using media technology such as PowerPoint where the teacher just directly reads off of it. That is something anyone can do on their own time. Another thing is just showing videos and not adding any sort of personal input to it. By doing that, you are pretty much just stealing someone else's work to teach kids instead of using it in your own way and ADD it to how you may want to teach something. Such as reading a book knowing there is a movie that was made about it and being able to show students exactly how a scene might have played out in the book by sharing a video of it. Also Bill Nye is another great example because he may teach and show videos of science and how things work, but the teacher can take that and use it as a guide of what their expectations might be of a project, so the students have a visual representation of what they are to do.

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  1. Natalia MayJanuary 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM

    Hi Kinana! Unfortunately, I have also noticed that same problem in the classroom. Not only are students becoming more reliant on technology but so are teachers. It sometimes feels as if the teacher and students are only communicating through the screen even though they are in the same classroom. I have also seen teachers who read to the class their notes or the PowerPoint rather than actually teach them. There is no back and forth between the teacher and students to check for understanding. I think using videos in class can be helpful, but only if it is used as a sort of supplement to the lesson, not used as the lesson itself. Technology can be a great support for student engagement like getting students to film sketches about historical figures or literary characters, but I think as educators we need to take breaks from technology from time to time, limiting our own use in the classroom as well as the students.

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