Week 9-1

Your thoughts/understanding about New Media Literacies... Do they fit in your content area? Yes, No, Why not or how? Do they fit in education in general? etc...
I would simply describe media literacy’s as social norms for the web community. This videos describe Media literacy has possessing social skills and cultural competencies necessary to become part of the online society. Media Lit. is important for many aspects for people in society such as workers, creative expression, future, citizenship, collaboration, classrooms. Society is moving as a whole from individual skills to skills of groups.

Media lit. is something students will development after practicing digital citizenship. Making the internet and web available for student will help give students the experience they need to practice their media lit skills. Media skills can be developed in class, work, during collaboration and creative expression. Here are some specific skills students can practice; judgment, negotiation, appropriation, play & experience, simulation, distribution cognition, trans-media navigation, collective intelligence, performance, visualization and multitasking.

Media lit can be supported in education by directing students to fan communities and forums, blog society and other collaborative web 2.0 tools. I want my students to participate in blogs and collaborative projects online. This will be easy for me as a business teacher and absolutely necessary for my student future if they plan to go into the global business world.

Videos
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies/videos/1214-the-new-media-literacies
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies/videos/770-what-are-the-new-media-literacies
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies/videos/704-what-is-participatory-culture