New Study Examines the Opportunities and Challenges of the Networked Classroom
A new MNet study of Canadian teachers' attitudes regarding digital technologies reveals both optimism and caution. While the educators in the Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Teachers' Perspectives study are enthusiastic about the ways technologies can enrich learning – they have concerns about how personal devices can impact the teacher-student relationship by dissolving the line between the private classroom and the public sphere.
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Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III:
Teachers' Perspectives
Teaching the Net Generation: Teachers' Perspectives in Young Canadians in a Wired World
In 2011, Media Awareness Network began Phase III of its ongoing study Young Canadians in a Wired World. We began with a qualitative research study in which teachers who had been identified as having been successful in engaging their students positively and creating an excellent learning environment in the classroom – one elementary and one secondary teacher from the North, the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic region – were asked about the role played by digital technology in their lives and their professional practice. Over the course of a semi-structured interview they volunteered their opinions about their students' abilities to make effective use of digital media, obstacles to teaching youth digital literacy skills, ways of overcoming these obstacles, ways in which emerging digital technologies can enrich students' learning, and strategies for managing the use of digital technology in the classroom.
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Media Education In Canada
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Online Course for Teachers
Understanding Media Literacy: Inside Plato's Cave is a new 3-credit online course written, tested and endorsed by Canadian media educators and is delivered in partnership with Athabasca University.
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