Monday, December 1, 2008

Mediatization of the Youth

Mediatization of the Youth
Speaker: Rev. Fr. Christian Buenafe OCD

Media has the big impact to our society nowadays. We all know that media lead us into modernization. Through media, it will help us a lot especially to the students. We can learn more knowledge and gain a lot of information. And it makes people became modernize. And also the disadvantage of this is that, it will affect the behavior of the students inside or outside the classroom. It makes the students became lazy to their studies and also by doing some household chores.

Computer technology contribute a lot in the field of media. Through computer technology,we can learned more knowledge and gain more information about the things that we had. We will be able to informed the happenings in our country and also to the foreign countries. We would be able to know how these things that we had existed at this time.


Actually, media has the big impact in education especially to the children. One of the example is the computer. As we observed nowadays, elementary and high school students are very addicted in playing computer games instead of researching their lessons. They are not able to do their homework or assignments because of this activity. And secondly is the cellphone. Cellphone is very useful devices that we used in communicating those people who are far from us. But sad to say, there is also the disadvantages of this devices. We all know that most of us has this kind of devices especially in the students. As we noticed, students are using their cellphones while their teacher taught his or her lesson to them. They do not listened to their teacher. And their learning will be the one affected.Well, because of technology there are a lot of high technology devices nowadays. Through technology there will be a cellphone that is used in communication. Television, through this devices we can gain more information and students will also entertained. Lastly, the computer that make our task will be easy and also we let our students to manipulate this kind of devices by themselves for effective learning process.

As what I have seen in the painting "Hapag ng Pag-asa". The painting is similar to the painting "The Last Supper" but the difference is that instead of apostles the poor people are in the side of Jesus. The person who is responsible for this painting has a message for us to gave concern to these children. In relation to education, these children are pitiful. They cannot go to school because of their status in life. They cannot learn how to read and write or by doing such things and they have lack of information and knowledge about education. And because of this, they will become illegitimate and the future of these children will be the most affected one.