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"While information technologies have had an enormous
impact within America's offices, factories and stores, over
the past several decades, our country's K-12 educational
system has thus far been only minimally affected…most
teachers are largely LEFT ON THEIR OWN as they struggle to
integrate technology into their curricula."
Underlying the summer school program is the belief that
technology is A PROCESS not just a product. Further, the
course believes that learning is most successful when
students are ACTIVE not passive. Finally, the course
recognizes the powerful, persuasive and pervasive media in
the lives of our students,acknowledging that social learning
theory tells us these entertainment technologies are also
teachers. As such, the course
- Explores TECHNIQUES not just tools
- Promotes social constructivist learning
- Develops critical viewing/thinking skill
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Our notion of literacy has always been related to the
information forms of the culture. In the era of the printing
press, literacy mostly meant the ability READ and WRITE
PRINT. Today however, most Americans get most of their
information from pictures not print, television not
textbooks. Computers, distance education, CD-ROM and other
formats utilize a combination of images and text. As such we
need a wider definition of what it means to be literate.
Media literacy provides communication skills for today and
tomorrow! It is the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE and
COMMUNICATE information in all its forms. All participants
will learn to both comprehend media messages as well as use
technology to create their own messages.
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