Saturday, July 8, 2006

  I have started getting back to the literature again, in order to fix up my curriculum—clean it up.   I read David Buckingham again today.  I really like what he has to say about media education & some of the bigger ideas that teachers should focus on.  I especially like his point about not just validating the students’ experience—which I think becomes a problem—especially in short term classes…but having them understand that there are choices being made in the media.  The students can begin to ask questions about how they themselves view the media & suggest that alternatives are possible.  I think leading this process drama depends on lots of question asking—going into the classroom with questions in the back of my mind but allowing these to change as the students bring in their views.  I love not knowing what to expect.  It’s exciting.   After reading Buckingham today, I think it might also be interesting to keep a diary of my own television-watching and how it changes through the study.