This week I read two articles concerning digital media in our society. The first is The Media Education Revolution by Len Masterman which discusses the development of media education across the world and its effect on society in the past decade. The second is Critical Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Reconstruction of Education by Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share which talks about the importance of our education system teaching media literacy to students so they can adapt and survive in in our increasingly digitized society. 

First off, I found it interesting that all throughout history people continuously questioned the benefits of media progression. I certainly recall my mother telling me countless times that staring at a screen rots my brain and now everywhere I look nowadays I see almost all of the people around me glue their eyes to a smart phone or computer screen. However, what I found even more interesting was  a point that the first article brought up which was that media education has changed the student teacher relationship by putting them on the same educational level. With infinite and quickly learned information only a few mouse clicks away the students often know just as much as the teachers making the traditional classroom setting more difficult to uphold. It is because of this that I believe it is the teachers job to then incite a general interest in the study of media so the student will want to use it to investigate,explore, and grow absorbing as much information as possible. I myself have two siblings that are a few years younger than me and it's true that they know more than I do. Their education started on a totally different level than mine, a more digitized level with more information readily available and as a result they are having to be challenged in school more than I ever was at their age. I can only imagine the possibilities for future generations using digital media and the types of digital devices and information hubs that will be available.