As part of the M.Ed program, I am taking a field experience course this semester. This course allows me to learn from an experienced teacher and have the opportunity to work with students. Last week I facilitated a current events lesson.
As I was planning the lesson I reflected on the perception that some students do not follow current events. After discussing this with teachers and professors, there seemed to be one common thread;While access to information has never been easier, students can suffer from information overload.
During the current events lesson, we discussed this hypothesis and each student agreed that between school requirements and the availability of media (printed, radio, internet, etc.) they felt overloaded with information.
Although the students unanimously agreed that current events was important to them and the business world, they wanted efficient access to information. Which lead to today's lesson.
This morning we discussed various web sources available for the students to use for the current events project. I also demonstrated, with the assistance of a student, how to use the "News" function in the Google search engine. The students found that this function allowed them to search for news information without getting distracted by to many hits. I agree with the students, as I was unaware of this function until I learned about it in the Multimedia class I am taking this semester.
My takeaway from my own learning experiences and that of the students in my field experience class is that information needs to be easily accessible and meet minimum quality standards to be beneficial.
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