Create to Learn: Instructional Practices in Digital Literacy
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The document discusses the concept of digital authorship as a collaborative and creative process that enhances students' autonomy and authority in learning. It emphasizes the integration of various literacies, including digital, media, and critical literacy, and highlights the role of technology in transforming educational practices. The author, Renee Hobbs, advocates for educators to support students in navigating a complex relationship with media while leveraging digital tools for creativity and collaboration.
Create to Learn: Instructional Practices in Digital Literacy
- 1. Renee Hobbs University of Rhode Island Media Education Lab Chariho Public Schools November 8, 2017
- 2. Literacy is the sharing of meaning through symbols
- 3. Literacy is the sharing of meaning through symbols
- 4. Rhetoric Print Literacy Visual Literacy Information Literacy Media Literacy Computer Literacy Critical Literacy News Literacy Digital Literacy Putting Literacy into Historical Context
- 5. 12 Flavors of Digital Literacy SKILLS & ABILITIES ➢ Computer Use and Knowledge ➢ Digital Skills LITERACY ➢ Online Reading & New Literacies ➢ Media Production & Composition ➢ Coding / Programming TEACHING WITH ➢ Technology Integration ➢ Digital Learning ➢ Blended Learning ➢ Connected Learning TEACHING ABOUT ➢ Information Literacy ➢ Media Literacy ➢ Digital Citizenship
- 6. 12 Flavors of Digital Literacy SKILLS & ABILITIES ➢ Computer Use and Knowledge ➢ Digital Skills LITERACY ➢ Online Reading & New Literacies ➢ Media Production & Composition ➢ Coding / Programming TEACHING WITH ➢ Technology Integration ➢ Digital Learning ➢ Blended Learning ➢ Connected Learning TEACHING ABOUT ➢ Information Literacy ➢ Media Literacy ➢ Digital Citizenship
- 8. How are students “creating to learn” in your classroom? How are you supporting the development of student autonomy and authority as authors? What current activities could be modified so that students experience the power of digital authorship? What potential impact might these activities have for learners?
- 9. Digital authorship is a creative and collaborative process that involves experimentation and risk taking. Students take on authority when they have a real audience and strategic purpose. When they create, students build upon what they have previously learned through comprehending other media texts. Digital authors enter into cultural conversation when they use, share and build upon the ideas of others. Classroom instructional practices reflect their complex & personal love-hate relationship that educators have with print, visual, sound and digital media. Digital authorship is a form of social power and so students and teachers need to negotiate the exercise of creative control. PREVIEW
- 10. Authors are the guardians of collective memory Who is an Author?
- 11. Who is an Author? Lone Wolf Collaborator
- 12. Authors are autonomous individuals with vivid sensations and a powerful overflow of spontaneous feelings that get articulated through creative expression. Who is an Author?
- 13. Authors express their personal subjective understandings, feelings and drives, exposing the irrationality at the roots of a supposedly rational world. MODERNISM Who is an Author?
- 14. Learning to Write & Writing to Learn
- 15. As you watch, consider: Why is becoming an author a transformative experience?
- 16. A Old Saying in Cambodia: “Before you die, you have to write a book, plant a tree, and have a baby.”
- 18. Developing from the French New Wave cinema of the 1950s, the idea is that film directors have a distinctive visual style, technical competence and consistent themes or interior meanings. Authorship is Multimodal
- 19. Authorship is about control, power and the management of meaning and of people as much as it is about creativity and innovation. Authorship is a Form of Social Power
- 20. We are All Readers and Writers
- 21. As you watch, consider: How does this video depict the the way people learn by creating media?
- 23. Digital authorship is a creative and collaborative process that involves experimentation and risk taking. Students take on authority when they have a real audience and strategic purpose.
- 24. At any moment, the reader is ready to turn into a writer. -Walter Benjamin
- 27. too much information too little time
- 28. We know from Project Information Literacy that students actively try to reduce the number of choices they have to make in order to get their assignments done. We know from the Citation Project that first year college students who use sources in their writing rarely write about them with much understanding. They don’t summarize sources, they harvest quotes. Nearly half the time, the quotes they use are from the first page of the source. We
- 29. Kami PDF & Document Markup http://chrome.google.com A Student PDF Annotation
- 30. A Student Annotates a Video ANT Video Annotation https://ant.umn.edu/
- 31. Finding, organizing & comprehending information are all practices of digital authorship comprehension meaning interpretation filtering storage & retrieval curation
- 32. What is Evernote? Knowledge management tools are online platforms that help people find, organize and use digital resources
- 34. As you watch, consider: What competencies are engaged by making a screencast?
- 35. Screencasting for Reading Comprehension Screencast-o-Matic http://screencast-o-matic.com
- 36. As you watch, consider: What competencies are engaged by making a screencast?
- 37. Screencasting as Literary Analysis for Prewriting
- 38. As you watch, consider: What competencies are engaged by making a screencast?
- 39. Screencasting to Demonstrate Problem-Solving Strategies
- 40. Video Commenting Tools Create Space for Digital Conversation Flipgrid http://flipgrid.com
- 41. When they create, students build upon what they have previously learned through comprehending other media texts. Digital authors enter into cultural conversation when they use, share and build upon the ideas of others.
- 42. Creativity is rooted in wonder & exuberance Creativity, Collaboration & Digital Authorship
- 46. Distribution is a Practice of Digital Authorship
- 47. SLEEP How Students Improve their Creative Competencies as a Digital Author
- 48. Cloud-Based Digital Tools Support Digital Authorship Writing KidBlog Google Docs Titanpad Wikispaces Storybird Animation Animoto Powtoons Osnap Moovly Screencasting Screencastify Screencast-o-Matic Screenr Video Production YouTube WeVideo Videolicious Shadow Puppet Multimedia Kizoa Storify Coding Scratch Ready Infographics Infogr.am Easel.ly http://bit.ly/createtolearn
- 49. LOVE HATE PRINT VISUAL SOUND DIGITAL Students bring their love-hate relationship with media, technology and popular culture into the creative process
- 50. With Creative Competencies Unleashed Come Opportunities to Critically Analyze Popular Culture
- 51. “How do I get started?” Managing Student Creativity “What is our topic?” “When is it due?” “How long should it be?” “Do have to work with a partner?” “How do I get an A?”
- 52. Creating with digital tools involves a process of messy engagement
- 53. As you watch, consider: What inferences can you make about how the teacher structured the learning experience?
- 54. How to Take Care of Your Pet by Grade 1 Students at Russell Byers Charter School
- 55. FORMAT CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PROCESS Teachers Structure Learning Experiences using a Balance of Creative Freedom & Creative Control
- 57. Too Much Structure Kills Creativity
- 59. People with creative freedom and autonomy bring passion to their learning
- 60. Classroom instructional practices reflect the complex & personal love-hate relationship that educators have with print, visual, sound and digital media. Digital authorship is a form of social power and so students and teachers need to negotiate the exercise of creative control.
- 61. Digital authorship is a creative and collaborative process that involves experimentation and risk taking. Students take on authority when they have a real audience and strategic purpose. When they create, students build upon what they have previously learned through comprehending other media texts. Digital authors enter into cultural conversation when they use, share and build upon the ideas of others. Classroom instructional practices reflect their complex & personal love-hate relationship that educators have with print, visual, sound and digital media. Digital authorship is a form of social power and so students and teachers need to negotiate the exercise of creative control. REVIEW
- 62. How are students “creating to learn” in your classroom? How are you supporting the development of student autonomy and authority as authors? What current activities could be modified so that students experience the power of digital authorship? What potential impact might digital authorship have for learners?
- 63. Renee Hobbs Professor of Communication Studies Director, Media Education Lab Co-Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Literacy Harrington School of Communication & Media University of Rhode Island USA Email: hobbs@uri.edu Twitter: @reneehobbs LEARN MORE Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Editor's Notes
- #6: Rhys tries to move people from one level to another. I talk about what parts are most common, and where we try to go. Renee talks about distinctions, and she speaks to them as interdisciplinary. Renee is pretty Frierian (spiral)...
- #7: Rhys tries to move people from one level to another. I talk about what parts are most common, and where we try to go. Renee talks about distinctions, and she speaks to them as interdisciplinary. Renee is pretty Frierian (spiral)...