Infusing Digital and Media Literacy Across the Curriculum

Chapter 9

"School leaders can inspire educators by helping teachers make large and small steps toward embracing new ideas and instructional practices" (Hobbs 170)

There is really a chain reaction that needs to occur. State board needs to inspire school administrators, schools administrators should be trying to inspire their teachers to push the boundaries, and teachers should be inspiring their students to embrace new ideas and to push themselves.

"When integrating digital and media literacy into the subject areas, it's possible that superficial uses of digital media and technology may trivialize the practice of accessing, analyzing, composing, reflecting, and taking action" (Hobbs 171-172)

I have seen it often that teachers will say they incorporate technology into their classrooms every day, when in reality they use a PowerPoint program to accompany their lecture. We are doing our students any justice if we are not showing them how to truly incorporate technology into their lives.

"A deep commitment to student voice is at the heart of digital and media literacy" (Hobbs 175).

We must not take the voice of our students' away. They have to have the chance to speak their own stories, otherwise digital and media literacy is just another school project.