2/20 task # 3

• The Hobbs text, the 6 PLS principles, and the NCTE standards all completely corresponde into the same ideas and same goals.

• Using the media will definitly gain our students attention and motivate them to do work. No student wants to write papers or book reports when they can be blogging, creating films, or writing scripts about something they enjoy based on a television show or a movie. Can we blame them?!

• All of the ideas and research we have read about for the tasks assigned to us this week make a huge connection and these readings were a huge eye opener for me. Hobbs proved that introducing media into the curriculum has had positive outcomes and best of all: students are enjoying it. It is definitly something that I would like to try in my classroom one day. The last thing I want to do is bore students with those horrible vocabulary books and filling in the blanks with the correct word.

• Children and teenagers love television. There are so many creative lesson plans that we as future educators can come up with to relate what students enjoy, into their classwork. Students need to enjoy their classwork and walk away from school at the end of the day understanding all of the content that they took in throughout the day. Bringing media into the classroom is one of the best ideas yet.