Interview:
What do you think about technologies?
I find the
technologies go to fast and to be arrived isn’t the better. I prefer the truth value:
love, friendship, solidarity, . . . with technologies these values are losing.
Is good for your children?
It’s perhaps
good for my children if it is nice (good) use but a lot of young use it too
much and they take the bad way.
What do you prefer between a book and a movie
for your children and why?
A book
because they can improve their spelling and their spirit is more open and a
book is more complete than a movie because there are more details.
Your children have new technologies and what?
Yes, a
computer, a gsm-android, a tablet.
Find you the technologies allow the education
of your children?
Yes,
because they can develop with their time and stay in the move.
What do you thing about game computer, novel
graphic and comic?
I’m against
the video game because I find the children are more nervous. The novel graphic
and comics are better because the children can read with the picture and like
this and after read some novel. In the first time they read with the picture
and after they read without picture one step each.
My challenge:
I think to
motivate the children we must use the popular culture not all the time but
sometimes because with that the pupils are active and motivate but we must
choose the good popular culture (example : don’t choose the things with
violence, not good words, …).
They are a
lot of technologies in their home so they can use a little bit in classroom
(computer, television) but just rarely and for a good reason (example : use the
television to watch a historic story and after make a lesson on this story).
I think use
a lot of comics or novel graphic is a very good idea because the children like
listen a story and perhaps, with pictures, they can like reading and have a
really passion for the comic, graphic novel and, perhaps, novel.
So, we must
use the popular culture to keep the attention of the children but not all the
time, we use rarely the technologies and we work, for the listening-reading-speaking
and writing, with comics, graphics novels and in the future (with more older
children) novels.
I agree with you Christina, a lot of my experiences of media within the classroom closely match that of yours. Children tend to only use technologies in the classroom for the wrong reason, or as a treat. I have rarely seen the use of film, games, or other technology used for an educational purpose. I also agree that we should try to use popular culture in the classroom because it motivates children; it can produce some high quality work! Children also engage with it more because it is something that they enjoy and often are exposed to at home. Also, I find the use of technology such as Interactive Whiteboards are rarely used for the children to interact with and learn from - merely for the use of whole class inputs and end of term films! However, I do think they should be used on a regular basis within the school so that children become 'media literature', as Dean (2010) states, as well as the children being aware of the potential dangers of media such as the internet.
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