"As the search engine that’s become its own verb, Google’s success is difficult to frame.
One of the most telling examples of their gravity in search is how few legitimate competitors they have. (Some would say they have none.)"
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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"Ever since the Media Education Lab moved from Temple University to the University of Rhode Island, I was looking for a chance to update the classic media literacy remote control...[which] presents a metaphor for the active and structured approach to the analysis of media and popular culture." The remote control has been re-designed to " a smartphone look while keeping the key questions and core concepts the same.
Beth Dichter's insight:
The "buttons" are the "features" and include: * Reality Check * Private Gain or Public Gain * What's Left Out * Read Between the Lines * Stereotype Alert * Solutions Too Easy * Record/Save for Later If you look at the"the bottom part of the MEL App [you will]... see the different media genres content that can be analyzed." The post notes that you may use this to explore newspapers, TV messages, comics, tablets, radio, books, movies, video games and more. Think of it as a tool to promote media literacy and a guide to structured critical analysis. This is not a real app that you download, but a tool that is very reasonably priced. "One side of the smartphone displays the various "apps" for analyzing a media text and the other side displays the "five critical questions" of media literacy developed by Renee Hobbs." 
Irvin Sierra's curator insight,
November 6, 2014 11:14 PM
This article is in relation to what we are talking about in class because it has to do with popular culture. This new invention that they had made was based on already a device that was use for media literacy. But with all the new technology advancing and growing they decided to make it look more attracting to society by making it look like a smartphone. By making it look like a smartphone more people would be attracted to it since everyone around the world now have smartphone devices. This is not only across the US but across the world . Its spreading so it much likely consider popular culture because everyone would want to have the new thing coming out. |
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"Continuing to teach in the stretching shadow of technology while only dealing with it through glimpses and gimmick is an awkward arrogance we may be dealing with for some time to come. But while education bickers on about how to best educate children, those children are making powerful moves–sometimes intentionally, sometimes as thoughtless, drifting trends–to fully reinvent the way human beings connect."
Beth Dichter's insight:
When you think of technology do you think of connected learning? Do you consider how you can use the Internet? Have you considered what the word Internet means: "inter, meaning connected, and net, as in network, visualizing multiple connectors and connectees." Many of our students have access to the Internet, and they use that access outside of school. How? They communicate, text messaging, twitter, video and more. This post explores what may happen as more and more students connect using social media. After exploring acces the post moves on to discuss how technology impacts "peer performance" (and assessment). Technology provides tools that allows students to curate and critique performance. The final section explores how this common experience has the potential to impact learners, in "visible and invisible ways."
Nikolaus Wood's curator insight,
May 24, 2013 12:50 PM
Business in terms of infomation technology is interesting. When education comes into the picture it becomes important to make sure that the product is actually useable for the students and that it can be used in a way that will benifite not only the students but also the teachers. |
When you ask students what search engine they use the answer tends to be Google...and their tendency is to look at the first four or five results (this is from my experience with students).
This post provides a look at "innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom...[with] the intended outcome [to be] the students sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process as the digital universe continues to evolve."
What are some of the ideas? Read below and then click through to the post to learn of others.
* Locate 3 sources of information that support an idea, and rank them in terms of their credibility.
* Have students record immediate but brief think-alouds for why they choose to click on certain search results while skipping others.
* Defend or critique the process of Googleing entire questions (versus simply Googleing key words and phrases).
Consider picking a number of these ideas and using them with students in your class this year...and share with other teachers in your school. It is not only students whom need to upgrade their search skills.