This week some of us had the task to interview one student in order to get to know how he/she wants to use New Media in school, how often it is actually done and in which subjects. Furthermore, we should ask if he/she thinks it is useful.
I did an interview with a student from 12th grade. It was quite interesting to see how he desribed New Media use in his school. In the following I would like to show some of his answers.
First of all, I wanted to know what he thinks about the current situation of Media use in his subjetcs.
He told me that New Media is not used very constantly by teachers with their classes. It always depends on the current topic in a subject and it appears quite often that teachers do not include New Media.
In a second step, I wanted to know in which subjects in particular he uses New Media in class.
I was striking to me that it was mostly integrated in language classes as English. When it comes to the term paper of 12th grade, teachers do use New Media with their students. Either they give a task to their students and let them do research on it,or students can work independently on the topic of their term paper.
The student, I did an interview with told me that he thinks it is quite useful to include New Media in his language classes.
But he also said that the usage of New Media is rather rare and it seems as if lots of teachers either do not like to work with it or they “blank it out” somehow.He argued that there could be more possibilities to profit from New Media.
In addition to that, my interview partner mentioned that most of his subject do not include New Media at all; for example sciences as chemistry or physics.
As a last question I wanted to know how he would like to use New Media in his subjects. This question seemed to be difficult to answer, because he could not really think of New Media usage in subjects like physics or biology or maths.
Nonetheless, he stated that New Media could be used more consistantly in terms of research. Besides, New Media could also be used in sciences by showing clips of certain phenomena or in order to show how good presentations should look like.Finally, he said that New Media is used appropriately in language classes, but could be improved in all subjects in order to provide students with better skills.
After my interview I was quite satisfied with my answers, because I could see how New Media usage in school has already changed.
