Artifact # 7
Media Influences Videotape, a short documentary, which focuses on the impact of the media on children
Context
This documentary was created during my pre-service training
at Appalachian State University in the course “Media and Technology in
the Elementary School.”
Impact
This project was very valuable because it revealed how
much media actually affects our nation’s children. Knowing how much media
impacts children influences me to focus on media literacy in my classroom.
This video could also be shown to children, parents and other teachers
to demonstrate media’s impact on children.
Alignment
This videotape would be an excellent resource to show
in conjunction with a presentation on media literacy for parents or even
students. Even though this documentary is short, it certainly gets
the point across. To research what students already knew about the media
or how it influenced them, I interviewed several students and recorded
them with a video camera (Tech 12.2).
Through creating this video, I realized that television or video is best
utilized in short segments, as opposed to showing an entire length video
that could bring out the worst in students’ attention spans. This project
serves as a powerful visual to help children learn about media literacy
through interviews with children (Tech 12.6).
The video would be an appropriate introduction to media literacy, which
is included in the Information Skills curriculum for children. Through
viewing the film, students would begin to think about how media has influenced
their lives (Tech 10.2).