I find this article very useful for teachers or future teachers, this article basically sums up the main theme or point of our class. The whole objective is that they want both teachers and future teachers to get the young youth more engaged into the digital media. There are going to be many more jobs that will need the future people to be more locked in with technology they will need to study technology and digital media in a whole new way that today we still do not even know of. Even tody there are places that offer training and classes specifically in digital media, and they are right when they say that they will be the most demanded jobs in the next the years.
Even today there are some young children that already know how to do many things on a computers with a great number of programs as you will see in the following video. But there are also a great number of children that do not know anything about a computer or have very minimal experience using a computer or any other piece of technology. There might be many reasons as to why some children do not get to use technology as much as others, and this is all part of the digital divide. Some families can not afford to purchas a computer or little mp3 players for their children whereas there are others that can, also in different parts of the world some type of technology are rarely seen. This could also happen within a ountry or even a city at some points, in some parts of the city like the lower class where there are not much private schools the children would not have the luxury of using an up to date computer with up to date programs as comparred to the upper class.
I find that the Macarthur foundation has a good lead on what sort of influence the digital media has on the youth, they have found that they might learn quite alot. They have also found out that digital media permits the individuals not only to learn and receive information but also allows the individuals to share their ideas with one another, give their opinions to the rest of the online community. To do this they might use podcasts, or youtube, to film themselves and on the video they will simply state what their opinion is. Anoter way that they can share their opinions is through blogs on the internet, simply using site just like this one. They can also share their opinions on other social sites such as myspace and of course facebook, they can simply rant or rave about aything that they want, either one their page or on others. Lastly they can also go on local forums and receive information on anything that they would like but they can also contribute to existing threads or start new ones. The whole picture that Macarthur is giving us is once again to educate the youth through or even about technology, we have to come up with new ways of interpreting our material and assignments with technology because many things in the new future including jobs will require people to work with teachnology most of the times. In conclusion it is easier to teach and prepare a young individual if surround them with this technology.
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