Global Digital Media

By using digital technology in-and-out of the classroom the students are able to connect with both classroom activities and each other effortlessly. Students must be able to integrate global knowledge and skills in their digital media projects.

Digital media literacy in a global era offers more than using technology to do the things that were done by hand before – such as data or word processing, retrieving information, presenting knowledge, and one-to-one communication – it now allows easy participation in the sophisticated global experiences and networks that our wired world affords.

As our books have informed us we have learned much in the past decade about the potential of a technology-rich approach in education and classroom technology.  Now we must forge ahead and transform teaching and learning for the global era by pairing digital media and technology with global learning for the 21st century.

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Global Technology

Our global future is emerging through communication, teamwork, and innovation – all of which are contingent on digital technology and our students’ abilities to successfully apply it.  Students must be allowed the opportunities to access, create, and participate in the global digital media culture in our classrooms.

We must be globally and technologically ready, yet there is a noticeable divide within the US school systems that holds our advancements back in our educational development, behind the rest of the world.  Not all of our students are ready for the global demands that will one day be made of them, because of their lack of digital educational opportunities in the classrooms.

Introduction

Teaching students in the 21st Century Digital Age, I believe will be done through in-depth analysis, by identifying teaching strategies, facilitated by collaborative technologies, that promote active learning environments and are tailored to the needs of today's students.

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age