Teaching for the Future: August 2006

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Episode 24: Beer Companies use Hats to Target Kids

If you have a podcast I'd love to hear about it, so feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com or send me an audio message through Odeo

Intro:

the M Show

News:

Wired News Writer Faked Info from Wired: Wired has taken down three articles in question when investigators could not determine the authenticity of the sources.

The Today Show aired a story about how children absorb ads as a preview of a Dateline series on childhood obesity and the new film Snakes on a Plate.

Colbert Speaks... America Listens from CNet.com: Stephen Colbert shows the loop hole in reality on the Wikipedia. I took the audio from a YouTube video called Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia.

Promo: Check out PodCamp.org for more information about Pod Camp

Commentary:
I talk about the use of advertising at low cost retailers like Wal-Mart and Target.

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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Episode 23: Scary Movies, Super Friends, and the teenage mind

I want to thank Jesse Thorn, America's Radio Sweetheart, The Sound of Young America for the intro that started it all.

News:
Here There be Monsters from NYTimes.com: Aidan Carter-Foster talks about Scary Movies and what South Koreans fear most.

"Heroes of Color" from Wired Magazine: Duff McDonald explains the surge in multicultural comic book characters.

Promo:
This week's promo is from Jeffery Bradley who is the Guy in a Tie who produces a great podcast for his middle school students. I wish my science teachers were this cool.

Commentary:

Why do we need Media Literacy?

You would never give someone the keys to a car without teaching them how to drive, then why would you let a child out into the world with out giving the tools they need to sift through the media. There are so many people trying to grab that kid's attention and you are sending them out unarmed.

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Episode 22: High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech?

I want to thank Chris Penn from the Financial Aid Podcast for the great intro for the show.

News:
What's next for Wikipedia from Boing Boing: Just down the street at Harvard Law School Wikipedia is having their Wikimania conference and I'm not going. I never knew how expensive these conferences are. I figured because the website was a free service then I could get in on the cheap.

Authorship gets lost on Web from USAToday (via Weblogg-ed): This article talks about the use of mainstream news media in blogs and don't reference the original article. This article really touches upon the importance of Web-ethics. I think this is going to be an issue in the Read/Write Web, and maybe we should rethink our definition of plagiarism.

The Sims Application in Sociology from David McDivitt: This post talks about using the Sims as a lesson in Sociology. This is an interesting way of making the lesson easier to swallow and allows students a frame of reference.

Promo:
This week's promo is from the Shakespeare Cast. You can find more information about the show at ShakespeareCast.com

Commentary:

Do the Tools Make the Man (or Woman)?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too caught up in "tech" part of ed-tech. I think technology is a great platform for communication, but technology will never replace the message. At it's very core New Media is just people communicating with other people. Maybe we don't need technology to have New Media.

I found this great article on NYTimes.com called All the News That Fits: Liberia’s Blackboard Headlines. Alfred Sirleaf is the publisher/editor/newscaster for Monrovia, Liberia's Daily Talk. Alfred collects news reports and posts them up on black boards for the people in his community who can not afford to buy the paper. This is a very low-tech version of Google News. Maybe we don't really need all these bells and whistles.

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