TAKE THE QUIZ!
As you read the 12 descriptions below, pay attention to the phrases and ideas that are most similar to your values and priorities:
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PROFESSIONAL
You have high standards for your students’ work, and you may be seen as the go-to media professional in your school. You know how to push your students to understand and emulate the conventions that are important to being taken seriously as a creative author, artist, writer or media professional. To help students enter the real world of media creation, you may bring other media-makers into your classroom to enrich the learning experience.
PROFESSOR
You balance your interest in media and technology with a deep connection to academic content and standards. You want to be sure that media and technology are not used merely as bells-and-whistles, but to advance specific learning outcomes. Multimedia presentations, engaging websites, videos, and educational technology help you address the core academic content and skills that students need to master.
TECHIE
You’re the educator who loves tablets, apps, programs, plug-ins, widgets, websites, and other types of educational technology because you have a passionate curiosity about new tools. You like experimenting with what these tools can do. You see much potential to engage students with the media and technology tools they love and use in their everyday lives.
TRENDSETTER
You’re smart about pop culture and curious about kid culture. Maybe your own most-loved popular culture isn’t too far removed from that of your students. You are inquisitive about the trends and hot topics that make up a crucial component of the fabric of your students’ everyday lives. You want school culture to meet kids where they live. You use pop culture to connect home to school, pulling kids into a learning mode.
DE-MYSTIFIER
You “pull back the curtain” to help students see how all forms of information and knowledge are constructed. You emphasize the practice of critical thinking, helping students ask good “how” and “why” questions.
ACTIVIST
You want to make society more just and equitable by promoting democratic participation. You use media and technology in the classroom as a catalyst for students to have a voice in improving life in their communities and in the world.
TASTEMAKER
You want to broaden your students’ horizons. You want them to have exposure to a wide variety of texts, ideas, people and experiences that deepen their understanding of history, art, the sciences and society. You know that a key component of students’ future success in life will require them to draw from a variety of cultural sources both classical and popular.