Language Arts Educators Balance Text-Only Tactics With Multimedia Skills
Being literate in the 21st century goes beyond the ability to read text, many of today’s language arts teachers say. Learners must be able to synthesize and utilize a wide variety of media—such as video, audio, and still images—to express themselves and compete in a global, collaborative environment.
“Kids are graduating into a world where they need to be able to convey a message on a giant screen for a PowerPoint or a smartphone screen,” said Jim Burke, an English teacher at the 1,350-student Burlingame High School outside San Francisco. “So making choices about size and format and media is kind of becoming interesting and a kind of increasingly substantive question.”
Both teachers and students have to be thoughtful and intentional, though, about the objectives of teaching with technology and how technology is used in...
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