My thoughts on "New Media Literacies" are that today's youth culture is one where they cannot remember a day where they have not had a computer or some sort of technology to access their information. They are capable of utilizing technology in ways that even we, the young adult generation, are not even aware of. I am now starting to feel like how my parents did when students show me their creative projects that they have done with their technology and I can't even think of where to start. It is baffling to me how quick students today are picking up and utilizing technology to enhance there education (whether they know it or not) and just run with their imagination.
To me, new media literacies most certainly pertain to my content area of business education. The students I teach need to be able to harness the technology and use it in order to be competitive in the real business world. Employers are looking to hire my students because they are the ones who are the most creative, innovative, inspiring, and knowledgeable when it comes to new medias.
I would say, generally, education needs to infuse more new medias into the overall education of today's youth. We need to break away from the traditional thought process of what education is and how it is "supposed" to be taught. We need to start thinking about how education can benefit our student's in the new technological age of business.
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