Media Over the Decades: From Radio [fast-forward] to Podcasting and the iPod

While thinking about the contribution that I wanted to make to this section of the Handbook about the role that the visual and communicative arts have played in the English and language arts classroom (hereafter, I will just use the single term English), I found myself thinking about both of these music videos. “Video Killed the Radio Star” got me curious about the “starring” roles that radio, fi lm, and television (“video” signifi es both fi lm and television) have each played in English classrooms over the decades, and “Th e Internet Killed the Video Star” satire got me thinking about what the future holds for these media forms as the infl uence of the Internet continues to rapidly and radically transform education.