Hello, my name is Carissa Ceglia. I am currently a junior at CSUN, majoring in English-single subject matter. While taking five classes, it is difficult to juggle all the note taking, homework, and keeping up with all the readings. Media technology appears to be a hit or miss for students and teachers in the work environment. While I currently have many different views on it, I sway more towards it being positive and productive for the learning atmosphere. The reason I feel this way is because it gives students a wider scale to learn on. This is also positive for teachers because they can reach out to their students between classes/breaks. Teachers also have the opportunity to allow a paperless turn in, making it environmentally friendly. Lets also not forget that it could make it cheaper for college students by teachers being able to post readings online, making it available and free. I am understanding to teachers who believe it won't help; however, if their main concern is students going on social media sites, porn websites, etc. they are far from correct. I know I wouldn't dare be caught looking at porn in the middle of class, social media sites, maybe but if the students are engaged in a curriculum that everyone is following on with the teacher it makes it difficult for them to be on social media sites.
I've seen first hand many ways teachers and students interact with media technology. One I recently came across was a teacher allowing an anonymous poll, where students text in to join and then answer her question one hundred percent completely anonymously. It was a simple questioned she asked, as if what do you think this course will entail? And people texted in their thoughts, and no one felt ashamed of giving a wrong answer and were willing to participate. This has to be one of the most convincing way to get people involved, including the shy ones. It was absolutely brilliant. Another amazing media technology advancement I experienced was for a Broadcasting class, where the teacher was able to play clips, shows, and soundtracks of different media to enhance the classroom learning experience.
In end, media technology is not a hinder to the learning abilities of students and to help teach them for professors. It can only advance us further as a whole.
(p.s. the picture is original.)
Hey Carissa! I'm with you on tech. Porn is easily taken care of in the classroom, but they do go on google and do image searches once in a while. I think that at this point, since tech is such a big part of our society and culture, it's necessary to have tech in the classroom because it will only help them become better prepared for the workforce. If you go to areas where traditional manual labor jobs dominated, you'll see that those jobs were replaced by automation; the communities that rise from the ashes, however, are the ones who invest in tech, and teach their displaced workers how to thrive in a new industry. I think we would be doing a disservice to our students if we did not provide technology for them to learn on. If a teacher has trouble getting a student motivated, a piece of tech might be the one thing to get them motivated and investing in themselves.
ReplyDeleteHello Ms. Ceglia,
ReplyDeleteYou do have a great point in you blog Ms. Ceglia. It is true that technology has a big array of benefits that students and teachers can use in their everyday life as per the examples that you have given here. I don’t disagree with you at all however, it is necessary that both teachers and students are properly trained in how technology should be use at least in school/classrooms. There are those students who don’t care about if they are found using technology for class unrelated purposes. By the same token there are teachers who don’t know how to really use technology fort the best benefit of the students. In conclusion I guess it really boils down to being an effective user of technology but mainly having the right people to instruct others how technology should be used.
Sincerely,
Alonso Vargas.