Members of the Youth Media Literacy and SIGHT & SOUND programs at El Centro College this summer with Preservation Link, Inc. are gearing up to produce some technological savvy projects that will help prepare them with their future endeavors. I enjoy watching them create and implementing their thoughts into concrete ideas. This practice engages them in the usage of critical and higher order thinking skills. Student participants are encouraged and motivated to develop projects that will inform the public about issues that we as citizen often encounter, with the twist of seeing it all from a students’ perspective. Student projects are presumed from the development of their own insights that involve many issues that are prominent within society. I am rooting for these ideas to gather momentum as they continue to grow in their academic careers as students, with the hopes it will carry on into adulthood.
Question
How do students go about bringing these ideas to light?
It all starts from learning the basic processes of how to produce, manipulate and develop a product. If you think about it, we all are equipped with a basic ‘know how’. It may not be as developed as it should be, but it’s a starting point. This is how the process begins. Students take their initial knowledge about a concept and construct new meaning by adding the new information that they root out as they work to prior knowledge.The Future
The Youth Media Literacy and SIGHT & SOUND students are developing these pertinent skills, as they should be, before making choices about their future careers and individual life directions. It makes me feel confident in the fact that they are our future leaders and teachers that will be at the helm of mechanisms that will stir us into a greater hope in the things to come.
Let’s me hear from you: Please leave comments and thoughts as to how you believe you develop new knowledge…
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