Is all information equal? Is it accurate, worthy of our attention? How do you decide which information to take in and which to discard? Most importantly, how will you teach your CTE students about information literacy?
Over the past two weeks I have learned more about the internet and how to use it. Before I would go "Google" what I was looking for in hopes it would appear magically on my screen. Now that I am aware of how to use .org, .gov, .com I have been able to sufficiently search the web. Which in turn has helped me teach my students. Though this generation gets marked as the computer savvy kids they are not all that savvy. The are very good at social media site but outside of that I have found at Marietta they are not too smart.
I my class there is always something to talk about in regards to Law Enforcement. As everyone knows its always the bad on the media in regards to Police and what they did wrong and "who killed who" today. Now with the new White Cop v. Black criminal wave that has come about my students want to talk about it everyday and know my thoughts and opinion. I don't go into depth about the topic but speak on the ethical standards in which we as Law Enforcement Officers are held to. I also speak in regards to how we as the people have lost sight as to what is right and what is wrong and no matter what race, gender or sexuality we are we all, have a standard in which we should live by and should have self respect and respect for others.
So what I have done in my class to teach is I have the students look up a topic daily and we spend the first few minutes of class talking about the subject. They are allowed to use their phones, computer or news paper article they saw the day before.
In regards to this topic I try to get my students to realize not everything published by the media is 100% accurate. The bad is what sells and hardly ever the good. Stay positive and rely on yourself and hold your neighbor accountable if he or she is about to do something stupid.
HEy! I love daily topics. Our new age student needs to keep up with trends and what is going on. Always knowing what is changing adn what is going on in the U.S. and the world! Newspapers are lost and I love them. There is so much to learn on paper other than what "might be true" on internet media. I like that we are introducing on how to look things up and showing them these tools in our class. Should they be getting them in computer class? Sure do they not always. I have many kids who say they sit in class on their phones. Just because their teachers dont care. What are they doing? Not learning they are on twitter, or snap chatting other students.
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