https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMDQ9JOUm6T4lksVnMNLVX72ze511EWLGGBkkg6xqkI/edit?usp=sharing
Here is the link to my GoogleDocs Paper with rough draft of my case!
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices
"Such transferecne would depend both on the students' own capacity to identify opportunities for innovation and the way that such innovation was encouraged in school." (pg 130)
This quote from chapter 7 got my attention because it reminded me of our previous blogs and discussiongs about not all students having the same access to media or new technologies. Digital learning, if not taught in school, is the responsibility of a student in a sense. These students need to have creavitiy and innovation and then maybe educators would be more prone to using technology in schools. I am aware that everyone has different access-- making this sort of an unfortunate cycle.
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"...demanding that student-teachers design a text using visuals, print and audio, is consitant with Kress's (2000) argument that literacy education in a digital age demans 'a very differnt pedagody and a fundamentally different notion of learning'." (pg. 144)
Having young educators who are learning how to go out into the field of teaching create these types of lesson plans to stimulate the brains of young students. This new pedagody is going to hopefully help young students learn digital media in schools more than they are doing now. It is a gradual process and implementing new ways of teaching with college-age studend teachers is a great way to start and hopefull create a snowball effect.
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"For example, in the multimedia workshop environtment, students share pictures, music tracks and tips for creating particular effects for others' projects to a degree that I have not experienced with students respond to print texts alone". (pg 160)
This excerpt from chapter 9 demonstrates the feedback students receive when digital media is added to curriculum. They can share so much more and broaden their opinions and work when multimedia is included. Printed text is so limited to the amount of review can be done with it. Students are contained to a set direction of where to go with their feedback. Having multimedia included allows for so much more creativity.
Using digital literacy outside of school can be many things- social media, creating presentations for work, or just organizing your own digital life. There are many apps that can help with all those things. I feel prepared after taking this course about showing my learners, someday, about the world of digital literacy. I feel like it is an ongoing project, though, because this world is ever changing. To feel more prepared I would need to keep up to date on the media world. I also think I would definitely have my students prepare digital projects to show their understanding of content. It may be beneficial to them in the learning aspect- some students are visual, some aren't. It can incorporate all learning styles in some way. Also having them create digital means of understanding will benefit them in the real world. They will need to have these skills when they graduate from school and find a job.
This quote from chapter 7 got my attention because it reminded me of our previous blogs and discussiongs about not all students having the same access to media or new technologies. Digital learning, if not taught in school, is the responsibility of a student in a sense. These students need to have creavitiy and innovation and then maybe educators would be more prone to using technology in schools. I am aware that everyone has different access-- making this sort of an unfortunate cycle.
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"...demanding that student-teachers design a text using visuals, print and audio, is consitant with Kress's (2000) argument that literacy education in a digital age demans 'a very differnt pedagody and a fundamentally different notion of learning'." (pg. 144)
Having young educators who are learning how to go out into the field of teaching create these types of lesson plans to stimulate the brains of young students. This new pedagody is going to hopefully help young students learn digital media in schools more than they are doing now. It is a gradual process and implementing new ways of teaching with college-age studend teachers is a great way to start and hopefull create a snowball effect.
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"For example, in the multimedia workshop environtment, students share pictures, music tracks and tips for creating particular effects for others' projects to a degree that I have not experienced with students respond to print texts alone". (pg 160)
This excerpt from chapter 9 demonstrates the feedback students receive when digital media is added to curriculum. They can share so much more and broaden their opinions and work when multimedia is included. Printed text is so limited to the amount of review can be done with it. Students are contained to a set direction of where to go with their feedback. Having multimedia included allows for so much more creativity.
Using digital literacy outside of school can be many things- social media, creating presentations for work, or just organizing your own digital life. There are many apps that can help with all those things. I feel prepared after taking this course about showing my learners, someday, about the world of digital literacy. I feel like it is an ongoing project, though, because this world is ever changing. To feel more prepared I would need to keep up to date on the media world. I also think I would definitely have my students prepare digital projects to show their understanding of content. It may be beneficial to them in the learning aspect- some students are visual, some aren't. It can incorporate all learning styles in some way. Also having them create digital means of understanding will benefit them in the real world. They will need to have these skills when they graduate from school and find a job.
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Interview Part 2
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Hanging out- Her responses coordiate with friendship by her wish to use the technology at school to check her social media sites. She mentioned she had many.
Messing around- her use of computers provided her with informal learning opportunitiess by using Google to look up interesting things, playing educational games from teachers, and also how to use a keyboard in general and internet tools on her own.
Geekingg out- I believe she has deveoloped a particular interest in many things from her enjoyment of researching different topics on Google. She also enjoys different games that I personally know are educational. She is a very bright student.
Schooling- She does not mention the use of lingo in our interivew, reading books, or writing traditionally. I did not really ask her to elaborate on any of those topics. However, she does mention that she enjoys reading about different topics.
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"One technological determinist view represents contemporary children as increasingly 'active' and 'worldly' because there are now technologies that enable and encourage this."
"The enormous variety of blogs- sometimes referred to as the 'blogosphere'- includes serious and trivial material and is a largely unregulared clamour of indiviual and group voices. Depending on one's point of view, this can be seen as a fascinating diversity of human expression or a confusion of unfiltered information and opinion."
"When part of the reality of a situation is virtual, and the actors and researchers are both physically embodied and actualized in the virtual world as avatars, the research context can be conceived as a number of layered realities."
Digital Literacies; Social Learning and Classroom Practices
"One technological determinist view represents contemporary children as increasingly 'active' and 'worldly' because there are now technologies that enable and encourage this."
-- This quote resonated with me because I find it true that chilren in today's world are much more informed and knowledgeable about things going on in the world and have their own opinions. They can even locate places online to voice these opinions and make a stand for what they believe in. I don't know if it is completely a good thing that children can see what is happening in the world because there are so many awful things that are posted on media forums. --
"The enormous variety of blogs- sometimes referred to as the 'blogosphere'- includes serious and trivial material and is a largely unregulared clamour of indiviual and group voices. Depending on one's point of view, this can be seen as a fascinating diversity of human expression or a confusion of unfiltered information and opinion."
-- This stuck out to me because are blogging every week for this class and has brought me into to the 'blogosphere'. Reading my peers blogs has been very informative and I have started looking at blogs to get opinons on things in everyday life. I think students can benefit from learning how to blog and how to research blogs of others. It can be informative as well has helpful in many situations.
"When part of the reality of a situation is virtual, and the actors and researchers are both physically embodied and actualized in the virtual world as avatars, the research context can be conceived as a number of layered realities."
-- Having students participate in virtual world learning could be a postive in the educational setting. Although there are still questions about grading and observing, it is a good theory to help some students learn different ways of understanding things in other ways besides a classroom setting.
-- This quote resonated with me because I find it true that chilren in today's world are much more informed and knowledgeable about things going on in the world and have their own opinions. They can even locate places online to voice these opinions and make a stand for what they believe in. I don't know if it is completely a good thing that children can see what is happening in the world because there are so many awful things that are posted on media forums. --
"The enormous variety of blogs- sometimes referred to as the 'blogosphere'- includes serious and trivial material and is a largely unregulared clamour of indiviual and group voices. Depending on one's point of view, this can be seen as a fascinating diversity of human expression or a confusion of unfiltered information and opinion."
-- This stuck out to me because are blogging every week for this class and has brought me into to the 'blogosphere'. Reading my peers blogs has been very informative and I have started looking at blogs to get opinons on things in everyday life. I think students can benefit from learning how to blog and how to research blogs of others. It can be informative as well has helpful in many situations.
"When part of the reality of a situation is virtual, and the actors and researchers are both physically embodied and actualized in the virtual world as avatars, the research context can be conceived as a number of layered realities."
-- Having students participate in virtual world learning could be a postive in the educational setting. Although there are still questions about grading and observing, it is a good theory to help some students learn different ways of understanding things in other ways besides a classroom setting.
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Digital Texts In and Out of School
"And yet, in many classrooms these devices and the texts produced with them are still perceived to be irrelevant, and even dangerous, in relation to children's learning and their development of powerful practices with text."
-- From the introduction, this quote got my attention because I think it very true in a lot of our schools. Maybe educational systems are nervous to bring all these new technologies into the school out of fear. I think opening the digital literacy door wide open will benefit students and school all around.
"How do we ensure that every child has access to the skills and experiences needed to become a full participant in the social, cultural, economical and political future of our society?"
-- This is a tough question. If we provide the necessary tools in the school environment then we need to be sure to educate our students fully on what we expect them to learn, because some students (maybe more than we realize) will not have access to these same learning tools outside of school.
"Further, in exploring meanings, we can take into account not just the written word, but also images, layout, font, sound, gesture, movement and so on."
-- Written word is becoming only a single way of communication. Images obviously speak 1,000 words, but adding font color, size, music or sound, and movement can all help our words speak more loudly than we ever hoped. As educators, we need to be creative in ways to get our point across and gain the attention of our students. I think the tools we are taking from this course will help immensely with that!
"This research aims to understand how digital texts are used by a small purposive sample of preteens and early teenage children to create and perform their social identities."
-- I used this section of text in my interview blog, but I want to use it again here because it still blows my mind how young people today are balancing this whole digital world with so many social media outlets. My sister listed three or four, and that is a lot to me. I know there are even more out there! I think it can be a good thing- for students to figure out what they like, and who they want to represent themselves as, but this can also be a bad thing because sometimes we cannot take back the things we post on the internet and it can be detrimental to our lives. Just something to think about..
-- From the introduction, this quote got my attention because I think it very true in a lot of our schools. Maybe educational systems are nervous to bring all these new technologies into the school out of fear. I think opening the digital literacy door wide open will benefit students and school all around.
"How do we ensure that every child has access to the skills and experiences needed to become a full participant in the social, cultural, economical and political future of our society?"
-- This is a tough question. If we provide the necessary tools in the school environment then we need to be sure to educate our students fully on what we expect them to learn, because some students (maybe more than we realize) will not have access to these same learning tools outside of school.
"Further, in exploring meanings, we can take into account not just the written word, but also images, layout, font, sound, gesture, movement and so on."
-- Written word is becoming only a single way of communication. Images obviously speak 1,000 words, but adding font color, size, music or sound, and movement can all help our words speak more loudly than we ever hoped. As educators, we need to be creative in ways to get our point across and gain the attention of our students. I think the tools we are taking from this course will help immensely with that!
"This research aims to understand how digital texts are used by a small purposive sample of preteens and early teenage children to create and perform their social identities."
-- I used this section of text in my interview blog, but I want to use it again here because it still blows my mind how young people today are balancing this whole digital world with so many social media outlets. My sister listed three or four, and that is a lot to me. I know there are even more out there! I think it can be a good thing- for students to figure out what they like, and who they want to represent themselves as, but this can also be a bad thing because sometimes we cannot take back the things we post on the internet and it can be detrimental to our lives. Just something to think about..
Interview
I interviewed one of my younger sisters- Samantha. She is 14 and just finished the 9th grade. Here are her responses--
Do you have a computer /iPod/MPC playerWii/ ect....?
What kinds of things do you use the computer for?
What is your favorite thing to do on the computer?
How did you learn to do that?
What are some other things you use the computer for?
What is your favorite game? Why?
Do you know other people who do this?
How do you use the computer at school?
How would you like to use the computer at school?
Do you think teachers would let you use the computer to do those things? Why? Why not?
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A section from the readings in Chapter three revolves around children "create and perform their social identities" (pp. 56). My little sister made me curious about how they actually make up their profiles- I know I had a Myspace when I was younger and put so much work into making it ME. There are so many options of social media now for students to have, I'm curious as to how they juggle so many hats.
- I have an iPod and a family computer
- I use them to google interesting things and play games
- favorite thing to do on a computer is go to Coolmath-games.com and play the games
- a teacher game me the website when I was in middle school after I had finished all of my other assignments
- I also use my computer for social media (such as Twitter, tumblr, and Facebook)
- My favorite game is Red Ball because I like using the arrow keys on my computer to make the ball move around and collect stars
- I don't know anyone who does what I do on my computer
- At school I use the computer for my schoolwork and when I'm finished usually they allow me to play games
- I would like to be able to check social media on a school computer
- I would not be allowed to check social media on a school computer because some social media sites have inappropriate material that would not be approved of at school.
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A section from the readings in Chapter three revolves around children "create and perform their social identities" (pp. 56). My little sister made me curious about how they actually make up their profiles- I know I had a Myspace when I was younger and put so much work into making it ME. There are so many options of social media now for students to have, I'm curious as to how they juggle so many hats.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Presentation- Digital Natives
This stand alone presentation about digital natives and the new media in today's age tries to explain what we must face as current users of digital media, and future educators of students born into this digital age. We have a responsibility to learn new tools and resources to use for our students. They should be provided an education that uses traditional learning skills as well as new digital tools to prepare them for success in the world. Technology is constantly changing and we must keep up and help our students learn. We might also learn from them in the process!
Students born into today's times are at an advantage to learn with tools we didn't have as students. We need to provide them with the safety, skills, and information they need to use these tools correctly and to help improve themselves as well as others. They are educators of digital literacy as well!
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