After reading “City Voices City Visions,”I was instantly reminded of our 307 class last Wednesday. While we were discussing our media literacy projects, we, the students, were creating our learning. We were researching media literacy sites and projects that could help us create ours. Similar to the article, we were “discussing issues, planning and storyboarding, researching in books and on the Internet, writing scripts and narratives, and clustering around computers in cooperative work groups, creating meaning out of the curriculum and their experiences. They describe their classrooms as being filled with excitement and learning.” With the exception of the students working with video cameras, our learning environment was student centered. We were constructing our own learning just like the students in Buffalo.
Furthermore, to be more specific to the article, I think it is great that students are using technological devices to construct learning. In their videos, these student were able to research different concepts of English literature and personalize them. This is a great opportunity for students.
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You could not be more correct by saying that what we did in class last Wednesday night is exactly what the article is talking about. While Ashley, Theresa and I were beginning to brainstorm for our upcoming project, I made a web chart with all of our ideas and suggestions. I enjoyed working on the spot like that because our topic was fresh in our minds and we were producing our project before we even started it. The classroom in this article sounded so engaged and productive. I have no doubts that we will be able to create that same type of classroom one day.
Yes, last Wednesday we were like a bunch of school kids running around all excited about our work. I felt as though I was in elementary school again, when you try one thing, then try another, and another, and it goes on. Too many times in college are we isolated to one project and that's it.
We really are practicing what media literacy preaches. How else are we going to learn how to do this ourselves as teachers unless we're practicing it in our methods classes? We're learning by doing, just as our students will be once we get there. Learning from one another is so effective, because we are learning how to explain well to other people, which we will have to do so much when we're teachers. It's a constant learning process.
The energy was so high in class last wednesday that it pried me out of the funk that I was in, and made me concentrate on the task at hand. Just imagine how motivating it would be for student to constantly be in that enviroment.
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