Wes Fryer: Chapter 1

I found the first chapter of Wes Fryer’s book, Playing with Media, gives a very interesting look at the use of media in the classroom. One of my favorite points, that I found really interesting, was the part about cell phones and how they can be used in the classroom. I never really thought about how cell phones can be useful devices in the classroom. One of the points that I agree with, is the point that Fryer made about teachers using technology doesn’t necessary mean that they’re good teachers. I had teachers in high school that used many different kinds of technology and incorporated it into many different lessons that it wasn’t as effective as it could have been. Another major point that I agreed with was the last point that Fryer makes in the chapter is that as educators we must, “seek to empower students to become fully literate, and this requires us to all become medida CREATORS rather than mere consumers.” I liked a lot of the points that Fryer made in this chapter about how as teachers we must successfully use technology in the classroom and use it ourselves to become successful teachers and users of technology.