I’m working with some high school students this week on a research assignment for their Wired 9 course, a class on digital literacy and responsibility. As a part of that work, I’m helping them to generate some good research questions that they can explore and dig in to. Since I thought the topics might be of interest to folks who aren’t in the class, and since I also know that you have plenty of excellent questions, I thought I’d seek a little help while also create a resource for others doing similar work. I wonder if you might be willing to contribute a resource or a question or two. I’m certain that the 9th graders that I will be working with will thank you in advance.
I thank you, too.
(If you’re not comfortable using VoiceThread, feel free to leave a comment, question or link to a resource in the comments of this post, and I’ll be happy to transfer it to the VoiceThread, which I’ll be sharing with the students.)
I just added a bunch of suggestions, Bud.
Good luck
Kevin
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My question would be creating movies for edu (or any current event/prevention issues) be interesting for 9th graders to explore and build upon. Our site (one of Bud’s favorites;)) is thinking about partnering with http://www.moviestorm.co.uk and would like to understand if it would interest 9th graders. Or keep it inline with 10-12 grades (and anyone older who is interested in contributing),
Some great questions here 🙂
My two cents of suggestions:
A fundamental aspect of digital literacy is exploring/reading in a non-linear fashion. Therefore:
– How is digital literacy non-linear?
– If exploration is non-linear, how do we decide which direction we take? Is there a ‘random’ element? What are the ‘distracting’ elements?
A fundamental skill is the ability to find what you are looking for, and identify reliable sources of information:
– How does searching for media differ from searching for text in this regard (see for example http://www.edutube.org for video search)
– Which is more difficult and why?
– When is the information (answers) you are looking for more suitable in the form of video / text / pictures / interactive. Why? Give examples.
In what way will a person’s socioeconomic status impact their digital literacy?
If inhibited, how can the less fortunate be assured that they will have access to the same opportunities for learning?
What’s up colleagues, nice paragraph and nice arguments commented here, I am actually enjoying by these.