Digital Media in Today's Classrooms
The Potential for Meaningful Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
By (author) Dawn Wilson, Katie Alaniz, Joshua Sikora
Publication date:
12 December 2016Length of book:
174 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
239x159mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781475821055
Educators who engage with today’s students appreciate the impact digital media has on the lives of our younger generations. Learners of today consume, create, and publish multimedia content continuously, using a variety of devices such as cell phones, tablets, and computers. They generate original and innovative products through programs, apps, and the Internet as a means of communicating and representing their lives, ideas, and feelings. Unfortunately, not all students understand how to apply media literacy or media safety, and many lack knowledge of how to truly analyze media content for its value in society.
Today’s educators must learn to harness the enthusiasm students have for digital media (content that uses a combination of text, images, audio, animation, and video) into daily lessons in order to enhance student interest, engagement, motivation, and achievement in classroom environments. This book addresses these vital considerations, thereby empowering teachers and students to benefit from the application of digital media in their classrooms, both as a compelling assessment tool and as an engaging teaching strategy.
Today’s educators must learn to harness the enthusiasm students have for digital media (content that uses a combination of text, images, audio, animation, and video) into daily lessons in order to enhance student interest, engagement, motivation, and achievement in classroom environments. This book addresses these vital considerations, thereby empowering teachers and students to benefit from the application of digital media in their classrooms, both as a compelling assessment tool and as an engaging teaching strategy.
This book offers a compelling argument for multimedia as a tool that teachers and students can use to support instruction and learning. The authors provide a strong theoretical base to support their ideas. Important considerations such as guiding students in media literacy, safety and privacy concerns, and copyright are addressed. Several curriculum design frameworks are discussed, along with the role of multimedia to enhance instruction. The authors pose many helpful questions to be asked by teachers as they plan for the effective use of multimedia and emphasize that desired learning outcomes are paramount. This practical guide describes many pre-existing resources, as well as ways that student-centered multimedia use can help students acquire complex thinking skills. The authors offer many things to consider when assessing students' multimedia products and include examples of rubrics for assessing both individual and group projects.