The teacher's link in the Media Literacy website reminded me very much of a post Darlene made a few weeks ago. She mentioned a movie (?) she saw in which the teacher incorporated hip hop into his lessons to help students remember continents, countries, math problems, etc.
With the amount of students that are tuned into music 24/7 these days, what a great way to gain student's interest and help them learn.
When I was in my 7th grade Language Arts class, I could not remember all of the prepositions for the life of me. My mother taught me all of the words using the 'yankee doodle' song. I still know it until this day. I am proof that this learning technique does work!
The problem with incorporating hip hop or any music for that matter into the classrooms, is that the older generations are not interested in it. They prefer standing in front of the classroom and having students take turns reading paragraphs out of the text. BBBOORRIINNGGG!!!
I already applaud all of us because our students are going to have a ball when we are their teachers. It is amazing how much fun learning can be with technology and I am pleased that using music in the classroom is beginning to be recognized.
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I love using music and other types of media to teach students. However, as Dr. Stearns pointed out in my post about the teacher in New York using music to teach, the question is why are we asking kids to learn something they can access on their computers. I understand why she is asking that question, however, I still see classrooms who expect students to know these things for exams - they aren't allowed to access them on the web on their cell phones, etc.
I also understand we are learning to be different kinds of teachers and we, hopefully, will not feel we must teach students something they can access for themselves - rather we will teach them how to find what they need to know.
Glad to see you blogging away. Can't wait to talk to you about our media literacy project.
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