Meeting Bill Cowher

This is my new hat that I bought yesterday at the Linc for $25.
3 hours later I met Bill Cowher and he signed it.
He had a lot of words about the Eagles game.
Getting his autograph was great, but being able to have a beer with him and talk football was priceless.

TOP TEN LIST

Top Ten Things I learned in Media Lit.

1.) It should be called media EDUCATION rather than media lit.
2.) How to use a Flip Mino.
3.) Check your email periodically; sometimes you get reminders about forgotten work.
4.) How to incorporate blogging into a classroom, have it be an effective resource for collaboration and information sharing.
5.) How to educate younger individuals to become more aware of their surroundings which will make them more “culturally literate” rather than just being a part of the machine.
6.) Naked snowboards are made near my house.
7.) Twitter can be a helpful tool if in proper hands with the right plan implemented. I do not know if I possess that yet, but I am not afraid.
8.) Even though I have experienced political bias in media, I was semi-unaware of many cultural biases in children’s movies and programming.
9.) There can be a happy medium between today’s student population (more tech literate) and today’s teachers. Many of us do not want to embrace a change. If we embrace a possible change, which will lead to passion, a good educator will adapt.
10.) Not only do I feel being more aware will make me a better teacher, but also a more aware parent. Thank you.

Limbic 2

vs.

limbic?

4:15-5:15 clip

supersize the kids

go into the video to the 4:40 mark for a good clip

Colbert-Keynote

This is Stephen Colbert who spoke at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner: I have a wikipedia link about the event. Apparently, the head honcho in charge of the dinner did not know that Colbert was a COMMEDIAN who did a PARODY on Right sided biased news. He was under the impression that Colbert was a model of patriotism.

I also attached a youtube clip of President Bush's reaction during the whole event.
I think Colbert being introduced is the best.

Michael = Magic through Media

Startin Sometin' on my Blog

Taaa-wheat

Is Twitter a "Speically constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, teach, train or cultivate the mind and character of youth"? If it is...then Postman believes he can accurately refer to it as a "Curriculum".

Postman speaks about points made in a previous book about how education and entertainment must be packaged together. Students communicate that they learn best when they are interested in what they are learning. This begins when the educator can find material that is relevant, and a delivery system which combines the necessary skills to master, with a delivery system which is interesting for students to become engaged in.

However, for education to be most effective, there needs to be restraints on the entertainment value. We have talked about this in class already...like when using the internet for project research. One strategy would be to preview websites and provide students with a small, narrowed down list for their use.

Still after reading the articles on Twitter. I still have problems envisioning what it really brings to the table as far as education. Two things that are banned at our school cell phones and facebook....would probably not lead to twitter becoming part of this curriculum.

They call it learning "Difference" for a reason? odd.

Mr. Postman-"Our use of other media is largely orchestrated by tv. Through it we learn what telephone, movies, books, records, magazines, and radio stations to select. Television arranges our mediums in ways that no other forms of media can."

Postman does not mention Google, but I feel his statement is still true. What if I was stuck in the 1980s? I have my RCA television on. I haven’t moved it from one corner of my room to the other because it is the heaviest 18" TV on the block. I am also sitting down on my Apple IIc computer to play a game of Frogger, Q-Bert, or Ms. Pacman. How am I going to learn about the Internet? What if I do not see it at work or school? Television commercials...(even though we have probably stopped noticing it)...have advertisements with the letter "W" on them at least 3 times. Then some bad english after the periods, where the words are all smushed together. After a while, I learn that this is called a website. These advertisers, whenever a website is put onto a commercial, usually have text or they say "For more information visit our website". Advertisers, programs, companies, can use more of their time and money promoting a product or service without providing as many concrete details. They are bale to do this by advertising while attaching a website.

-Sooner or later I will look up from Frogger and think, "I need to learn more about this 'Dell Laptop'....where I can play my games with me in the car!!!! Rad!!" I ask around about this website. I get connected. I am reborn into this plethora of information.

Cascio-"It’s a form of co-evolution: we learn to adapt our thinking and expectations to these digital systems, even as the system designs become more complex and powerful to meet more of our needs—and eventually come to adapt to us."-----Isn't this Web 2.0. Aren't these the new applications like Pandora, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter---all of these things we have been talking about? Don’t we subscribe to these because they have been created to cater towards what we want in terms of receiving or communicating information?

Carr- Read this in another Grad class!!! Still like it! BUT-
I agree with ADD. I feel as though at least the amount of cases where it has been Diagnosed is more abundant than when I was in school. When I was in elementary school, I had been tested for ADD. This was because I had started swim practice at 5:30 every other am when I was 8 years old. I ended up putting my head down on the desk and not wanting to pay attention. What really was going on was that my 3rd grade teacher was SOOOOO boring.

This is what I feel is going on today. While people (even us teachers!!!) are becoming accustomed to learning through visuals, colors, animations, exploring the web, kinesthetic (hands-on) learning and workshops....yet we expect our students in THIS ENVIRONMENT to learn the way our parents have. If I am a student...I am switched off. Turning your switch off = a teacher labeling you as a possible case of ADD. If we can find a way to embrace this technology and integrate media appropriately into the way we educate, I believe that we will reach many of these students who are classified with this disorder.

Besides...it is not a learning "disorder" anymore. Isn't it a learning "difference"? Perhaps its time for some teaching difference as well.

Diet K-Fee

Please Mr. Postman 7-06

The minds that have been nutured by technology from infant to young adult cannot learn in the classroom where material is presented to them in the teaching style that their current teacher delivers to them. Many professors/teachers teach in a way that they found effective as students. It is true that there are so many $$$ spent on textbooks that arent used, classes that aren't attended, and networks that are used for about 2% research.

I agree with Mike's notion...relevance. Not only how can I make the material relevant to them (wanting to learn the stuff, understand why they have to learn the stuff) but also deliver it in a WAY that is RELEVANT to them. The delivery system does not seem to make sense to todays college co-ed feed-head.

Postman-pg. 62- "to these people, reading was both their connection and their model of the world. The printed page revealed the world, line by line, page by page."-speaking about the differences between colonists and present day- a time that "provides little time for leisure, and a time that provides too much."

Reading was held in high regard during this time, and only a select few were literate. These people were usually the highest members of society. This is because they could communicate with the outside, and they could be kept informed and educated. This was the only peiece of media that exists, therefore the most important. It seems as though the most important forms of media today are the internet and the television. Becoming literate in these advanced froms of media are held in high regard. Those members of society who can produce this media are very "well off" in society, yes?

Leech commercial

youtube video for anti-smoking above the influence
thought it was like the lesions fad in FEED