Bull, G. (2010, February). Finding students who learn with media. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(5), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/201002#pg1.
Glen Bull provides a great assessment of what media can do and can't do for children in the learning environment. He talks about an online organization called Primary Access which are online tools that allow students to edit video material from primary sources on website like the ones from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian.
Bull goes in to how to incorporate the media in to the classroom and says that it will take up more class time. However, the author says that the positives outweigh the negatives when considering time. Allowing students to create media through these outlets gives some students the opportunity to learn more effectively. The reason for this is because some students will be able to access their learning style through this medium. Bull gives statistics on the different ways the media can be used by children and how effective or ineffective it is.
1. What about the students that this doesn't reach? It's the same for the students that aren't reached through traditional instruction. This is a supplemental medium that can be helpful for all even if the students are not getting the content.
2. How do you counter the disengagement that students might experience with this outlet? This will happen in all types of instruction. Students will have to be able to navigate through technology, so if they are losing out on content, it can be supplemented through core instruction.
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