how media is changing the way we learn
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How Media is Changing the Way We Learn
Tammy Stephens
Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era
By Margaret Weigel & Katie Heikkinen(November 2007)Harvard UniversityProject Zero
Piaget’s Four Levels of Development
Sensorimotor stage: 0-2
Preoperational stage: 2-7
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Formal operational stage: 12+
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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV
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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV
DVD/ VCR
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Sensimoter Stage: 0-2
TV
DVD/ VCR
Preoperational stage: 2-7
TV, DVD, VCR
Preoperational stage: 2-7
Computer
Video Games
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
ComputerWord Processing
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
ComputerWord Processing
TV (3 hours)
Music (1 hour)
Video Games (1 hour)
Concrete operational stage: 7-12
ComputerWord Processing
TV (3 hours)
Music (1 hour)
Video Games (1 hour)
Social Networking
Formal operational stage: 12+
Hours Spent Per Day on Media
What % of Teens:
• Social Network?• Have their own blog?• Instant Message (IM)?• Create content and media to share on the web?
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Homework
Instant Messaging (71%)
Blogging (19%)
Creating Media (57%)
Social Networking (55%)
Learning to Change Video
Teens Use of Cell Phones
• 83% use their phones to take pictures. • 64% share pictures with others. • 60% play music on their phones. • 46% play games on their phones. • 32% exchange videos on their phones. • 31% exchange instant messages on their phones. • 27% go online for general purposes on their phones. • 23% access social network sites on their phones. • 21% use email on their phones. • 11% purchase things via their phones.
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When they are on a computer, 62% are also using another form of media and 64% are engaging in multiple computer activities at the same time.
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Access to this participatory culture functions as a new form ofthe hidden curriculum, shaping which youth will succeed and which will be left behind as they enter school and the workplace (Jenkins et al., 2006).
References:
Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century: McArthur Foundation.
Lenhart, A., Madden, M., & Hitlin, P. (2005). Teens and technology, Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Nicholas, C. (2008). Is Google making us stupid? Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008.
Rideout, V. J., Elizabeth A. Vandewater, and Ellen A. Wartella. (2003). Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers: The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Stephen, J. (2006). Everything bad is Good for you: How today's popular culture is actually making us smarter: Penguin Publisher.
Weigel, M., & Heikkinen, K. (2007). Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era: Harvard University.
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Contact Information
Tammy StephensSchool Perceptions
[email protected]://www.schoolperceptions.com(800) 644.4300