One thing that really stood out to me with the University of Minnesota's technique of using media in the classroom was their supply of computers. In the clip, it showed a few different shots of all the students in the class having computers to work with and a filing system for all of them. I don't think I will have these kind of resources in my future classroom, so it will be hard to use it as much as the seemed to be. I do know we will have computer labs, with assigned days to work on the computers, but the assignments need to fit into that hour- 2 hour time span.
As for outside the classroom collaboration for the students and teacher, I think it would be important to spend one of those computer lab days showing students how to work twitter and get them signed on to a class twitter page or whatever class on-line collaboration networks the class prefers to use.
Being an practitioner of on-line knowledge will be an important skill to have obtained when it comes to interviewing for jobs, choosing colleges, picking a major, and having applicable life skills that involve so much media.
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