User:Junhao Tuo/Digital media in education


 * 1) The main benefit of digital media in education is that it can increase student engagement. In addition, it helps students work through difficult concepts with multiple resources. Digital instruction also helps show difficult topics that are often hard to understand. When students use digital technology in a course, all the students in the classroom have the opportunity to hone those digital skills. The main implications of digital media in education is that, it gives teachers and instructors the opportunity to engage in dialogue based on mutual respect and reciprocity. Secondly, at the foundation of all teaching and learning, there is a link between the virtual and the actual based on the fundamental human relationship.
 * 2) How Digital Media Is Used In Education
 * 3) Digital Media Literacy

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A Critical Approach to Technology in the Classroom

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Authentic use of technology establishes classroom environments of social and intellectual connectivity across diverse peoples, students, subject areas, and ideas. A critical approach defines the school classroom as a microcosm of democracy where students pose problems and exchange ideas in a type of fluid, transformative dialogue. It is about students and teachers commanding technology. Students and teachers work together as "co-investigators of meanings." Essentially, critical inquiry requires students to willingly engage in communication within the classroom and teachers to privilege and protect the classroom community of students' voices and perspectives. Teachers encourage students to express their views and subject area knowledge via Email and discussion boards. Vanessa Domine argues in her research that to empower students to use technology to change those aspects of social and political institutions that they see as problematic and even oppressive, the school classroom has to be a place where students consider the media content and impact of technology both on micro (curriculum) and macro (societal) levels. If composition instructors cannot strengthen students' critical media literacy skills through courses that engage students in multimodal production and analysis, then these students will not be fully equipped to critically engage in an increasingly mediated world.