Help students identify, access, analyze, and evaluate media from around the world, including international news sources that are available in both local languages and English translation. Go deeper to facilitate awareness of how and why different events, peoples, communities, and cultures are represented in the global mass media and how this both reflects different contexts and affects cross-cultural understanding. It also broaden students’ exposure to opinions from other countries through digital media created by individuals, such as blog posts, podcasts, and videos as well as dialogue via comment boards, video-conferences, and any number of collaborative technology tools.

Opportunity

• Branding – This is afforded by Digital Media by use of the internet to encourage and allow businesses and organizations the significant opportunity to boost their product or services and make these marketable to persons locally, regionally and internationally.

Pitfall

• Informal Discussions – The level of participation in social media based discussion instead of physical meeting can so ‘water down’ or dilute formal methods of communications.

Opportunity

• Connections – This allows persons to use networking via social media channels to link up with individuals allowing for shared common interests to be developed and experiences. Use of social media applications are becoming more and more popular to be used by younger users of the internet to communicate.

Pitfall

• Time Consuming – In schools, students waste time on the internet during learning hours wasting electricity and use of computer resources.