Media can be used to inspire the minds of young people. The fact that they have grown up with our most commonly used technologies, means that they can spend less time learning how to use it and more time focusing on the content. Media-infused presentations like our first assignment allow for different kinds of minds to be able to learn the content--specifically, the disciplined and synthesized minds.
The disciplined mind is able to learn from these presentations because students can focus on one idea presented, no matter what way it's presented in. Students have the ability and chance to master a given topic through a media that they understand. They will take the information they are given and use it to become an expert in their field. If it is something they don't know, they will just work even harder to figure it out.
The synthesizing mind, however, can take information about several different topics in a presentation and synthesize it to come up with new ideas and theses. For example, I have a presentation made about the historical context of a novel, information about the author, and themes in the book. The students with a synthesizing mind can take information from all three topics and create ideas about how and why the author wrote the novel the way that he did. He can figure out the author's purpose based on real-life events at the time and develop a deeper understanding of the content.
Allowing students a variety of ways to learn information increases the chance that they will retain the information and use it to develop new ideas.
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