UNIT 2: The Way We Teach
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Overview
As educators, we have a duty to prepare our students with the opportunities to become effective communicators and critical thinkers for real world application. Using digital media and media literacy strategies together is about equipping our students with the ability to communicate using text, audio, and image, and enabling them to appropriately choose which method is best based on specific criteria. In this unit, we explore the ideas surrounding how we teach compared to what we teach.
Unit Objective: Participant will reflect upon current teaching practices, examine critical skills of student expression and strategies that facilitate learning with digital media.
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Key Terms
Media: form of communication through visuals, language, and/or sound where the producers are not in the same physical space as the receiver(s) of those messages.
Digital Media: audio, video, and photo content that has been encoded
Media Literacy: the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of forms, and includes capabilities such as comprehension, collaboration, reflection, and social action.