Teaching Media Arts: Reflection

Dear Tracey,

Media is a relatively new subject in Australian schools (Dinham, 2014). The world is now saturated with media, and to help enable students to be confident citizens of the world, critical understanding of media and its uses is vital (Dezuanni & Raphael, 2012; Dinham, 2014). Media needs to be taught across two avenues: about media and with media (Dinham, 2014). About media is what has been traditionally taught in schools: critical analysis and reflection about media (Dezuanni & Raphael, 2012; Dinham, 2014). With media is creating media – skills that have become both everyday and crucial in thriving in our media saturated world (Dezuanni & Raphael, 2012; Dinham, 2014).

Here is my PowerPoint. It doesn't last long and yet took me hours (literally hours) to set up. In the classroom this could get annoying to use and at best would require a lo of time to have the students navigate how best to use PowerPoint.

Yours, 

Kelda

References:

Dezuanni, M., & Raphael, J. (2012). Media arts and learning in the digital world. In C . Sinclair, N. Jeanneret & J O’Toole (Eds.), Education in the Arts (2^nd Ed) (pp. 145- 159). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Dinham, J. (2014). Delivering authentic Arts education. South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.