Futuring

Fox Becomes a Better Person would get an A for Hannah's job well done. She did a fantastic job telling the story of a fox by using illustration and verbal and non-verbal communication. As for the video, School Train, the production clearly took a lot of time and creativity. The special effects were top notch, but after watching the first few minutes, the video started to give me a headache. Regardless, projects like these could be the culminating pieces to the our unit "Finding My Place." The grading system would be a rubric and it would focus on five areas: illustration, grammatical conventions, presentation, effort and time management.

For a language arts class, SabrinaJourney is a great example of a digital personal narrative. Pictures and voice are all she needs to share the story. In my experience so far at Goldenview Middle School, a project like this would only be given to the gifted classes. Gifted students are seen as the tech-saavy type because most have computers at home. Not every student has that luxury. So depending on how much time a teacher gives students to construct a digital narrative at school, every eighth grader should be able to put one of these together.

The developments portrayed in epic2015 could have monumental impacts in a classroom. As a starter, the death of media could disconnect students from the core principles of journalistic professionalism -- fairness, factuality and nonpartisanship. Although some could argue news organizations have already lost their professionalism integrity (aka portraying rumors and scandals as news) it could worsen if all the nation's news feeds come from a single source. How would a student learn objectivity, what is true and what is false, if the organization delivering the news has an agenda? Would internet profiling a student, collecting their interests and habits and organizing them all into one device, lead to success? Or would it lead to a student who hears, speaks and learns only what they want to hear, speak and learn? I believe if podcasting is done right, it could lead to a more diverse world, one that is so connected that race, color and religion no longer matters when we build personal and business relationships.