Spencer Ayres
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This topic is hopefully an area where practitioners can share practice and investigate some of the new pedagogies surrounding education but particularly Media Education.
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Spencer Ayres
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Thought I would be able to edit the post, but clearly not. I have a blog post here http://spencerayres.blogspot.com/2012/01/students-as-leaders-of-learning.htm
as a starting point for discussion for my talk at the New Voices conference.
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Spencer Ayres
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If the link doesn’t work, try:
http://spencerayres.blogspot.com/ and going to the post titled “Students as Leaders of Learning – A Partnering Pedagogy”
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Cary Bazalgette
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I agree with a lot of what you say but am saddened that you cite Prensky and Gauntlett as gurus of this approach. I think both are pretty shallow and unhelpful in thinking through the real issues of pedagogy. Try Vygotsky; try Freire. It is all very well to talk about what students want, and to respect their hopes and expectations, but we should not duck the issue of what they need and may not yet know that they need. My experience of teaching goes back to the late 60s (when yes, we were already doing media teaching!) when I saw some brilliant project-based, child-centred teaching but also some horrendously sloppy and aimless activity that did kids no favours. We need a new consensus, independent of exam specifications, about what kids need to learn to become media literate.
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Some industry disciplines can be helpful in focusing self-regulated learning e.g. asking for a film pitch, work schedules etc…. any other ideas?
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Neil Martin
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Is a consensus ever really possible (or even needed?) particularly in this field? Everything moves so quickly that it is often hard enough just to keep abreast of everything that is happening let alone reach some sort of universally agreed concensus.
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Neil Martin 14 days ago.
