"Experiencing such digital stories, assisting kids and adults as they create them, and documenting their meanings and significance bring home to me a most urgent need: to expand our conceptions of what it means to be fully literate in new times."
I believe this quote stood out to me because the author has the same sentiment that the author of our text does in the urgency to teach digital literacy. I would say I agree but am also surprised that the author says it is an urgent need. I think most people feel that using the internet or watching television is something they have a lot of experience in and they feel they can handle media messages just fine. It does take research to be presented the way DUSTY does to make an impact to people that, yes, we are swayed by the media and advertisers in the way they want us to go. DUSTY does sound like a really fun and worthwhile organization that really empowers people to be their own agent of change!
http://www.youtube.com/user/DUSTYOTEC
Above is the link to a DUSKY YouTube channel. It had a lot of different links to info about media literacy and even lesson plans!
1. Digital storytelling promotes academic literacies because it encompasses written and spoken language, requires the storyteller to brainstorm and organize ideas and be creative, artistic and engaging.
An example from the text, "...we can help draw on interdisciplinary insights from fields such as communications theory, film studies, visual culture, semiotics, and ethnography of media…"
2. Absolutely not, a digital story has more dimensions to incorporate various sound throughout, various images/videos and then written or spoken text. I believe only a highly skilled writer can engage most people better than through the digital story's visual images of text and pictures as well as the auditory components of music and spoken words.
3. They will definitely become more proficient in the programs needed to make the movies, which is better than just using media to be online. Ideally, they will also be more likely to realize that the media is always giving us the images and messages they want us to hear (the same way they, as creators of a digital story, only shared what they wanted to share). Additionally, it becomes more of an interactive yet personal project which will help the students feel more pride and accountability in their work which will inspire a stronger desire to create a high quality product.
At Last: Youth Culture and Digital Media: New Literacies for New Times
Research in the Teaching of English , Vol. 38, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), pp. 229-233
Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.fairmontstate.edu/stable/40171638
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