According to Hobbs, “today, every teacher needs to be a
media composition teacher. That’s because the power of authorship offers
students of all ages a transformative learning practice. When students create messages, they gain new
knowledge while strengthening communication and problem solving skills (p. 84)”.
I agree
wholeheartedly with this quote and find it very important. Teachers need to see themselves as many
things, and experts of media is one of them.
When teachers have a strong understanding of media, they can facilitate
high quality learning experiences for all students regardless of the subject of
the class.
Although it is not a long quote, I was very interested to
read Hobbs description of learning.
Hobbs states “Media composition practices promote intellectual
curiosity. As a learner mysely, I was
lucky enough to fall in love with learning…Romance comes first. Emotional involvement with the subject matter
compels our interest (p. 88-9)”.
This
quote struck me as very interesting. It
may seem obvious, but our students are not going to learn if they don’t have
some emotional involvement with the subject matter. For a lot of students, that emotional
involvement is the fear of failure or bad grades. However, that is not the type of emotion
Hobbs is referring to. Media composition
can help students actually develop feelings for the subject matter out of curiosity,
thus generating an authentic and meaningful learning experience.
n talking about documentary ethics in the classroom, Hobbs
states “Scientists are stakeholders in maintaining a meaningful connection
between representation and reality. That’s
why accuracy and transparency matter so much in scientific research (p. 93).”
This
quote interested me because my content area is biology. I understand the importance of maintaining realistic
connections within my work, but will my students get that? I need to make sure I can help them
distinguish the line between representation and more abstract connections to
the material.
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