Artifact # 6
Artifact #6
Media
Influence Study – This project is an online presentation of the findings
of a media survey that my group and I gave to K-1 students.
Context:
This web page was constructed as a part
of my Elementary School Curriculum and Instruction class during my Block
experience at ASU. I was assigned to a small group of my classmates
who each worked with K-1 students in their internship. After doing
research on the developmental stages and characteristics of children at
this age, we conducted a survey to determine the media’s influence on children
of this age group. We asked students in our classes the survey questions
and recorded their answers using either video or audiotapes. We compiled
our findings and created a convenient website that shows this age group’s
media influences, as well as helpful links related to these topics and
items.
Impact:
This web page is available to parents,
teachers, students, and anyone else who has access to the Internet.
It helps to provide a better understanding of the outside influences of
children in the K-1 age range. After conducting this survey, I became
a lot more aware of where many of my students’ everyday actions and comments
were coming from. By learning what types of things influence children,
we can better comprehend the ways in which they think and act.
Alignment:
By accessing this website, people all
around the world will be able to see, in a clear and simple way, the results
of our K-1 student survey. We chose the World Wide Web as our medium
because it is easily accessible to almost anybody who wants to visit the
web page. The page is set up in comprehensible way by being split
up into the sections TV shows, Movies, Hobbies, Music, and Books.
By clicking on one of these categories, a person can find out which components
of each section have an impact on students at this age level (Tech.
Comp. 11.2).