Comments on: “For At-Risk Youth, is Learning Digital Media a Luxury?” http://dcentric.wamu.org/jp/for-at-risk-youth-is-learning-digital-media-a-luxury/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anon http://dcentric.wamu.org/jp/for-at-risk-youth-is-learning-digital-media-a-luxury/#comment-724 Anon Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:31:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?post_type=jiffypost&p=9070#comment-724 Learning digital media - like creating websites - might be a luxury.  But, using digital media to learn, is different and we should really be figuring out how to use it better.  Switching the worlds around creates two very different ideas.   A lot of technology programs centered on putting a computer in a classroom aren't well thought out and add little to the class experience.  But, with more programs and applications available to teachers to give different lessons to different students - there's room to free up a teachers resources by setting the kids as a group to work on guided tasks through the computer, while teachers work with individual or small groups of students.  Then teachers could do the "differentiated learning" they are pushed to do and you could use the teachers time in a different and potentially more effective way.  Learning digital media – like creating websites – might be a luxury.  But, using digital media to learn, is different and we should really be figuring out how to use it better.  Switching the worlds around creates two very different ideas.   A lot of technology programs centered on putting a computer in a classroom aren’t well thought out and add little to the class experience.  But, with more programs and applications available to teachers to give different lessons to different students – there’s room to free up a teachers resources by setting the kids as a group to work on guided tasks through the computer, while teachers work with individual or small groups of students.  Then teachers could do the “differentiated learning” they are pushed to do and you could use the teachers time in a different and potentially more effective way. 

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