Three things I learned
about storytelling are that children are easily influenced by the stories that
they hear/view, we gain a greater understanding of things when we have more
than a single story, and that it is easy to fall into the trap of a single
story, but the most important thing I learned is that it is dangerous to have
only a single story for reference, as nothing in life, no place, person, or
event, is that simple.
“Once they got started,
Mrs. Jenkins found herself not fully understanding what children were saying.
She had to ask clarifying questions of
the students to elicit more details and context in order to fully understand
the ideas and information they were sharing. As she asked these questions more
and more hands were in the air. Students were clearly energized by the process
of sharing their knowledge.
I think that the strategy
of connecting your lessons with something that the students are familiar with
is a great way to get the students engaged. Asking the clarifying questions
helps the students put more thought into the answers that they give, and will
allow them to make even more connections. When students are engaged and excited
about the lesson more meaningful learning occurs.
“We talked about the need
to empathize with the people who were experiencing loss and to honor those who
made efforts to help. We talked about how media messages about the disaster and
its aftermath of two wars were shaping our own sense of national identity and
the fresh fears we had as adults about how people around the world perceived
our country, the world’s largest superpower.”
Empathy, the ability to
understand and share the feeling of another, is in my opinion one of the most
important qualities that we as people have. Now so more than ever communication
is a large portion of our lives. We are in constant contact of the world around
us, and being able to relate to and understand other people intellectually and
emotionally is more important than ever.
“Some educators attempt to
disrupt students’ pleasure with advertising and media culture by demonstrating
how advertising promotes “a sense of inadequacy anxiety, shame, yearning, envy
and contempt for the self or the other.” Because the values of consumer culture
are so deeply woven into the fabric of our society, providing students with a
disruptive, alternative interpretation of advertising may create a shock to the
system that moves students toward critical distance.”
More and more we are
bombarded by advertising, a necessary evil in my opinion that allows creators
of digital media to create stories of a higher quality, and our students having
the ability to objectively view media messages of advertising, among other
things, and understand the meaning and purpose of them is incredibly important.
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