Reflection for Burke's chapters 12 & 13

These chapters are important to read when an educator needs to find ways to incorporate multimedia into the Language arts classroom. Chapter 12 gives great insight into the ten standards that teachers should know about technology. I guess I never considered standards for media literacy before. I assumed teachers would know the basics, but now the basics are becoming more in depth with the growth of technology. Many of our students will know how to do much more on the computers, so we need to try to stay in-tune with the technology or else our students will find loop holes or bring something to the table that is unexpected. In the classroom we need to be aware of some of the issues that may appear and be one step ahead. Educators also need to be prepared to not only teach subject matter but also the digital literacy and incorporate it as part of assignment expectations. Chapter 13 focuses on how to incorporate media literacy into an already jam packed curriculum. It is important to teach students how to filter through the mass amounts of information that passes through them as they surf the net. Some scam artists find teens as a great audience and feed them lies. This chapter goes into great detail how to teach students to filter through the filth that I will try to implement in my classroom some day!