Artifact 2

Competencies 12.3- “Use computers and other technologies effectively and appropriately to communicate information in a variety of formats on student learning to colleagues, parents, and others”

Competency 12.2- "Use computers and other technologies effectively and appropriately to collect information on student learning using a variety of methods."

Alignment to INTASC Standards:
The ethnography artifact aligns with INTASC principle 2 because it teaches parents and colleagues that media really effects students. It helps show us that what students wear and buy is affected by the media that students encounter on a daily basis. This project showed us that children learn and develop new ideas through the media. Students could also use this website or form their own website to see just how much they truly are affected by the impact of media around them. This website is a good way to show teachers, colleagues, and parents that media influences children socially, intellectually, and psychologically on a daily basis.

Context:
This artifact is an ethnography web page that I created with a group of fellow colleagues to communicate the effects of media on students in school systems.This particular web page was created on Netscape Composer after images were collected with digital cameras and a time of observation of student behavior was completed.This web page was created to inform us of media’s influences on students and school environment at Mabel Elementary School in Zionville, North Carolina.This is the school at which I did my intern and collected data to see how media affects the everyday routine of elementary students.The ethnography web page contains information about possessions around this school, student and teacher reactions to the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, students’ clothing reflecting images of the media, and things around the school that reflect media’s influence.The web page contains quotes and images of items seen around the school that reflect the fact that media does not remain absent from the public school system.It shows us that media does have a direct impact on students’ thoughts and learning at school.

Impact:
This ethnography page can be used to communicate with parents and other teachers the extents to which students are affected by the media around them and therefore meets competency 12.2 and 12.3.It will encourage parents and teachers to think about how students view media and how to compete with media’s influences in our homes and classrooms.I plan to teach elementary school and know that my students will be faced daily with influences of media.Therefore, I feel it is important for myself, and fellow colleagues, to understand how to use media in the classroom and communicate with parents how it affects children at home.