Thursday, November 12, 2015

Teaching With Current Events

What I really took away from the text reading, the video Journalism Revived, as well as the articles on Authentic Learning, and Place-Based Education is that it is incredibly important that students gain real world experience and knowledge, and that they gain the critical thinking skills and motivation needed to shift through the fast array of information available in the digital age.

Students how have the ability to look up information on any subject at any time with modern technology. This however comes with a price. Misinformation is abundant on the internet, and being able to connect information is key for our students to determine what is newsworthy, and how to understand it better.

In the Journalism Revived video Sarah Stuteville talked about how her and her friends went out and traveled the world to hear and tell these stories, and then they brought all the experience and knowledge back with them and put it into the community with their students program that teaches students to create digital media messages, and tell their own personal stories.

Authentic learning ties into Stutesville’s students learning program because that’s exactly what the students do. The students use the hands on skills they learn in this program and us them to tell high quality, personal digital stories, be it on a local level, national, or a global event. Place based education ties in with all of this because it gives students real world skills and experience within their own community.



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