Media-infused Presentation

Media-infused Presentation

Technology has captured the hearts and minds of many adults, teachers and students.  We have gone beyond just allowing our students to surf the internet, do basic research and hand in a paper. Digital media has put a new face on how students receive, relate, interpret, construct, analyze, solve and support their learning.  Having a media-infused presentation gives students the chance to extend their knowledge and add improvement to what they already know about the topic. 

          Just recently, I created a media-infused presentation that gave students a review on what they knew about bees such as, their anatomy and how bees make honey. However, the presentation extends much further; students developed their understanding that there are three types of bees in a hive and each bee has a job.  Just like families have different jobs in the home so does insects.  For example, in the hive the male drones will only mate with the queen.  The female workers are to care for the lava, maintain the hive and provide honey.  The queen’s job is to lay eggs.  Digital media allowed the students to visually see up close the bee and they saw video clippings that validated what they understood.  This segment of the presentation met the need of a discipline mind.

          In addition to laying the foundation of understanding bees; the presentation also covered why bees are needed in society.  Bees are pollinating insects. They travel from flower to flower and crops to crops carrying pollen.  The students will discover that bees are not just honey makers but 1/3 of the food world depends on bees.  They supply us with many of our food sources such as, some fruits, squash, cucumber, tomato, eggplant, nuts seeds, cotton and hay for livestock.  Having this information can allow students to do additional research on how they can improve an area where bees can pollinate.  Students can illustrate cleaning a neighborhood lot and make the lot a garden with an array of flowers.  This activity would address the synthesizing mind.

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