Media,+Technology+and+Values

To eVALUATE media and technology, we need to articulate our values. What do we value in schools?

I value connection. I like to have students make a paper cube that has the following questions one to each face.


 * 1) How does this connect students to other people in the classroom community?
 * 2) How does this connect students to what's in their heart, including their sense of fun?
 * 3) How does this connect students to the natural world?
 * 4) How does this connect students to the larger fabric of society?
 * 5) How does this connect students to their innate desire to ask questions?
 * 6) How does this help students connect curricular areas to one another?

To evaluate any program or activity or piece of technology, I ask them to throw their cubes and answer the question on top. Small group discussion tend to get at a variety of issues this way.

--Jeff Goodman