Wonder or Wander

Chapter 46: The Need for Critical Media Literacy in Teacher Education Core Curricula (Myriam Torrese & Maria Mercado) Critical media literacy program for teacher education is urgent in that corporatized media influence students more than teacher do and both students and teachers are the most volnerable under the influence. As Chomsky mentioned, critical media literacy is a course of "Intellectual self-defence" from manipulation and control threatening a meaningful democracy. Regarding the Odyssey Video-Telling workshop as a critical media literacy course, I ask myself the following questions: did the participants become intellectually more powerful against manipulation, control and humiliation cultivated through the mass media? Are they now more critical media consumers than before? Chapter 50: Punk Rock, Hip Hop and the Politics of Human Resistance (Curry Malott & Brad Porfilio) Critical literacy means to be fully literate and equipped with intellectual tools so that...

After almost three hours of walk to downtown of New Port, Vermont on July 7th, Mary Louise and I went to a bookstore and I bought this book. Woolf insists that women should have a consistent income and their privacy to be a good writer. She mentions that her life has changed ever since she became an heir and historically few genius came from a low class. However, she doesn't mention how one who is not lucky enough to be an heir can be a great writer. Instead, I interpert her point as women's econimical independence. Women writers should write a lot, whatever it is, to have an income out of it. According to Woolf, Jane Austin is a great genuis because she created her own style, untarnished from male writers' influence, without impediments, much as seen in Shakespear's, while Charlotte Bronte, another genius writer, who wrote Jane Ayre, shows impediments--distortion and anger as I understand--from the reality the author faced, so she cannot be comparable with Austin. Wool...

Chapter 14: Socialization in the Changing Information Environment (Veronica Kalmus) Because of increasing digital media in information society, instrumentalization and commodification of knowledge become dominant. The Net generation is technically savvier than their parents and teachers and get information easier than ever through the net, however, it is shown that they cannot easily evaluate the information and the majority still think that schooling should be important. This situation suggests "two-way socialization", cooperative learning process between students and teachers. Warshauer(1999, p37) stated that the beliefs of individual teachers are influential to the way of how students use computers. It could mean the importance of teacher's role for computer education, but the word of "beliefs" seems too abstract. Chapter 15: The Hyper-Reality That Never Happened (Marcus Breen) Development theories have in common that technology is essentially linked with nat...