Chapter Five

Summary-chapter 5

    In this chapter, the author talks about teachers should know about youth and digital media. She states “Today’s student is likely to engage daily in numerous literate practices, from print to film to multimodal forms such as websites and video games.” Also, three tough questions have been addressed in this chapter for teachers to think about those answers. The major part of this chapter is to discuss what is new media? As the author suggests, new media is an umbrella term which used to describe technologies of late 20^th century and that are new. On page 85, the author provides the characteristics of new media environment which are peer-based learning, collaboration, creativity, interest-driven practices and friendship-driven practices. Also, at the end of this chapter, the author provides an example of a teacher’s perspective by using technology in the classroom.

    The most interesting class I took was the reading guide class when I was junior in college. The teacher not only used print to teach, but used videos, movie clips, and sounds to facilitate his teaching. I think that was amazing, it let me know that teaching can be fun as well. In order to understand the youth trend, as a teacher, we need to engage ourselves with our students. We need to know what’s the hot topic students are talking about, certainly internet can help us to do that. I think new media in today would be iPad, iPod, Kindle, etc. those technologies transfer the way we used to read, we don’t need to go to the library to borrow books, now we can just use those technology tools to download them.