Media Education

Our class lecture today was composed out of students presentation on Media Education. My group member and I were focused on comparison of Media Education and Traditional Education in incorporating Moby Dick in Educational System. In this perspective the following video of well known movie Gods' Father might perfectly incorporate depiction of imagery for analysis of Moby Dick. In this perspective, God's Father movie depicts lot of dark imagery, scene begins late in the evening which makes the reader aware of death related imagery.


Further, we incorporated some important chapters from Media Education text to emphasize the importance of media education today:

"In this chapter, I have argued that production should be a central component of media education" (Chapter 8, 137).

"This implies that production should be both frequent and recursive- and with the growing accessibility of the technology, this is increasingly becoming a realistic possibility. Rather than leading up to the Big Production Number (as is the case in some Media Studies syllabuses), students should be engaging in practical work on a regular basis, both in the form of longer projects and in frequent, small-scale activities" (137).

Based on our text and personal experience with the media education, I believe the most helpful aspects of media education are as following:

• Blog reflections before and after the class
• Comment on other classmates' reflections on a Blog
• Finding modern videos, images, or cartoons associated with a particular theme

"Equally, it is important that students have the opportunity to work across a range of media forms and technologies- photography, video, desk-top publishing and so on"(138).

I believe traditional and media education should be always incorporated. For instance, when you introduce Moby Dick to the class, give a little summery of the text with the images which will help to create a specific themes:

As Ishmael tries, in the opening pages of Moby-Dick, to offer a simple collection of literary excerpts mentioning whales, he discovers that, throughout history, the whale has taken on an incredible multiplicity of meanings. The multiplicity of approaches that Ishmael takes, coupled with his compulsive need to assert his authority as a narrator and the frequent references to the limits of observation (men cannot see the depths of the ocean, for example), suggest that human knowledge is always limited and insufficient. In this perspective, present a certain images to develop the themes of the limits of knowledge:

 "Limits of Knowledge"










What is Whale?

In Mythology: "In China, Yu-kiang, a whale with the hands and feet of a man was said to rule the ocean"