It's that time of year...we're all looking at budgets, plans, organisation for 2012. One of the common catchcries that I hear is that 'we don't have the money' to spend on technology. This article explores the role of digital media in learning for youth at risk but it is easily translated to rural and regional school students. Can we say that they can't have access to the digital world because we think it is more important to spend on [insert here....new readers; photocopy paper; lawn-mower; new desks etc).
This Mindshift article makes some interesting points, and prompts some interesting questions:
For At-Risk Youth, is Learning Digital Media a Luxury?
“We need to build a more compelling narrative that digital literacy is no longer a luxury but a necessity.”
“The educational environments that will thrive, the ones that will be the most innovative, and the ones that have most impact will be the ones that create opportunities for kids to create digital media literacies that we all recognize as important and that have social implications, educational implications and civic implications, as well,” he says. “So we have to equip kids with skills that help them not just to consume, but to become architects of their information environment and that requires different skills in using mobile devices and using the Internet.”
Read the full article at:
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/07/beyond-facebook-teaching-at-risk-youth-to-create-digital-media/#more-13953
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