Stormtrooper Blues: Sticky Note Animation
I decided to make an animation in the vein of the old flipbook animations that I used to scibble in whatever book I was …
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Week 6 Reading Critique: Platforms and Personalized Learning
This has been an incredibly full week and like most of the others associated with ILT5340, there has been a serendipitous intersection between life and class! I am spending two weeks at the Summit Public Schools Basecamp. The Summit Public School... -
A Haiku Poem about a Haiku Poem
Ever wonder what to write a haiku poem about? Well here is my haiku poem with some ideas. People, places, things Things to write in a haiku Anything you like Love, trust, happy, sad Emotions at their highest Writing a haiku Work, l... -
All By Myself (think song here) – Reading Response 6
Our required reading for this week came from Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. After reading through the material and the amazing annotations from my group members, my resounding thought was, “Experience is the best teacher”. Students need to be actively engaged in their work and […]
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Week 6 Reading Reflection
This week we read and annotated Chapter 7 of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning by Lankshear and Knobel. The chapter was titled Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. This chapter continued to explore social learning and examined the ways people rely on this learning. For me, this week’s … -
The Science of Social Validation
Content from the source material Rationality and emotional resilience are neural connections that can be strengthened. Through this neural mechanism, self-awareness can enhance our life experience. Social Neuroscience When we express ourselves and our views are appreciated, dopamine neurotransmisson activates our reward neural network. This increases our feelings of empowerment and self-esteem. In this way our beliefs or […]
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Reflection to my first digital story
Well this week has been eventful! I caught a Pikachu and I hatched a Charmander… Oh wait that doesn’t pertain to this class, sorry Pokemon Go has taken over some brain cells! Anyway this week I was trolling through my YouTube channel and came across my first digital story that I created alongside a second […]
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Wordle in the Classroom
For this week’s DS106 Assignment Bank I chose a visual assignment I could see myself using in the classroom. The visual assignment Word Cloud called for the creator to use Wordle.net or a similar site to create a word cloud. I could see myself using this site in a number of ways in my classroom. For … Continue reading "Wordle in the Classroom"
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Blog post Critique
This week I looked at a blog post about a “Porcupine’s right to live.” When I rad the title I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, “Oh no, what on Earth did a porcupine do to someone?” But as it turns out some teenagers thought it would be fun to just club a dozen […]
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Week 6 Story Critique: A Virtual Reality Trip
I was contacted a while ago by a guy that goes by Septex on YouTube. He requested to download the TARDIS control room model …
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Push or Pull- You choose!
Well I choose Pull! In our reading this week about social learning it describes how the traditional education system is considered the “push” and the “pull” refers to informal, participatory learning that has the learning pulling up their own learning material and sources. I don’t want to be part of the “push” aspect of teaching […]
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Osgemeos: working together, learning and acquiring knowledge: Week 6 reading response
" if you obey all the rules, you end up loosing all the fun" The sibling team of Osgemeos's work can be seen around the world, the two have been collaborating since birth and have worked with names like Banksky, JR and other top contributors in the industry. Their work speaks to current adversities and global issues all the while being aesthetically pleasing and a bit humorous. Their work is a gentle reminder of the loss of innocence and play that happens as we grow older, and what I think is happening in education today. With so much focus on testing and finding a implement that is a do all for all, I find myself 'breaking the rules' more so than not.
"This is a version of social learning as a process of proactivity for desirable outcomes."Lanksher & Knobel 2011
Osgemeos's 'Liberate Expression' sums up perfectly this week chapter in whole. The whole idea of social learning is to allow the individual to express in a group, as part of a group, to a group for a common goal or interest. Without the liberation of expression, and social learning we are only digesting that which is given to us, and the question becomes if we are learning anything at all. There is a 'push' ( this now seems backwards to say as Lankshear and Knoble express pushing as giving information rather than pulling from the individual. ) for PBL or Project based Learning, but what is being lost is the social aspect. Having a student follow directions to complete a project is not PBL nor is it social. The act of learning according to Lankshear happens when multiple things occur at a social level. When the individual is aware of themselves and their contributions, and contributes proactively then they are learning.Proactivity: adjective1.serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory:
Changing my own perceptions of being active in the previous week, this proactivity, stuck in my thoughts again. As Lankshear and Knobel suggest, learning occurs as we become participants and proactive in the learning environment. This proactivity recently brought a vandal to justice, as people used the online community to communicate her whereabouts, speak out about her choices and end the end locate her through the very affinity that she was posting. With out the act of social learning and community this person may well still be 'tagging' up up our National Parks. Passion also resurfaced this week, we all know that it is important to be passionate, but we need to remember this for educational purposes too. Lanshear and Knobel suggest that the web allows students to not only learn socially, but to also harness passions that connect with other like minded individuals and groups. We witness this passion as Remi speaks out against a 'gag' order of sorts on his presentation for a conference. Without the passion and these affinity spaces, one might feel alone in their fight against hedronormativity, racism, sexism, and institutionalized systemic education. Reading the multiple posts and comments, reminded me that community occurs at many different levels and this is what we need to be teaching. It was a community that came to Remi's defense, just as a community of people the same that may have never met before, might not even live in the same country came together to proactively come to a common goal and outcome to stop this young white privileged female from defacing the outdoors.
'in this city there are in this city there are many serious problems that need results! Do not spend time $ erasing graffiti!'It is not the internet, the web, Facebook,Instagram,Snapchat, Reddit, etc, etc that plague the young minds of the students that we are trying to teach, it is that we don't understand and that we are afraid of change. The change in the social paradigm that has the teacher leading the class and being in control, that allows students to become the leader and choose their own path. They (students) have so much to teach us about being social, perhaps we should listen. Change the focus of what we perceive as the problem!One question that I found completely interesting in the reading:Many writers and researchers have drawn a distinction between ‘acquisition’ and ‘learning
My response:OHH - good question, are the two synonymous? I feel like learning something means that you have not yet experienced the authentic task, whereas acquisition seems to reference that you are able to draw conclusions and use what has been acquired to develop new questions and ideas.What do you think? Are acquisition and learning the same or or is there a distinct difference?
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Exercise and the Brain – Week 6 Story Critique
For this week’s digital story, I found something that is related to one of the articles included in my Reading Response. It is called “Exercise and the Brain.” What types of “involvement” – and by the author/creator(s), participant(s), and/or audience – are apparent in this story? While there is only one narrator in this digital … Continue reading Exercise and the Brain – Week 6 Story Critique
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Week 6 – Reading Response
Articles I read this week: “Social Learning, ‘Push’ and ‘Pull,’ and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning” – Lankshear and Knobel (2011) “Can Running Make You Smarter?” – Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times “Social Learning, ‘Push’ and ‘Pull,’ and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning” In this chapter, we continue to look at learning as a … Continue reading Week 6 – Reading Response
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Week Six: What would you Change?
I love this video. I have to admit after stumbling by accident into the Jubilee Project last week, I ended up digging a bit deeper into this during week six. I find that so many of their videos line up perfectly with my focus of transitions and change and risk-taking. However, they do have a bit of a formulaic feel after you watch a few of them.
The storytelling part of this really creates empathy between the individuals in the video and the viewer. Every woman who has had a child can identify with the woman who wants to erase the stretch marks she has earned as a result of pregnancy! We all wonder if we should cover those grey hairs or not--even men these days are doing more than just dabbling with hair color which is quite a shift in my adult experience. (Of course, they could go the route of my husband who opted for bald as a recourse to turning grey!)
The digital literacies demonstrate in this video are fairly sophisticated--without appearing so. This is deceptively simple in terms of setting. Just a tall stool in an open room somewhere. However, the lighting is perfect. The camera angles are flattering. The background music enhances the overall feel of the message--it's a good fit for the message. All of the technical features come together for a cohesive whole.
It is in the message though that the strength is really found. This is what the Jubilee Project excels at--the delivery of a message which is thoughtful and thought provoking. It takes me back to one of my favorite quotes from Robert McCammon's A Boy's Life:
“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don’t recall it. See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves."
Then I view a video like this and it occurs to me that we were all kids once who would only change their bodies by growing mermaid tails or wings so they could fly. I wish we could embody that wishful ambition for living magical lives instead of allowing that to become consumed by the trials of daily living which quickly reduce us to making a living rather than living a life. Those are two very different things--the first of which will never require a mermaid tail or a set of wings. So, in periods of transition and thinking about risk taking, I am wondering how to make that mindshift backwards and rekindle the comet fire within myself and the students I serve. -
The Line in the Sand
This week I decided to look at a completely opposite viewpoint about an aspect of my interest-driven scholarship, Trap-Neuter-Return, to see where the opposition is coming from – What are their arguments? Do they have legitimate information I should consider or fact-check? But I didn’t just want to look at at a post – I … -
Week 6: Digital Story Critique
These week I chose to explore TeachingChannel.org for a video to critique. I specifically searched for videos that discuss deeper learning and collaboration because of this week’s Lankshear and Knobel reading. I landed on a video titled Deepening Text Analysis Through Student Talk. (For some reason the Embed Code wasn’t working) Based on Lankshear and Knobel’s appendix in … Continue reading "Week 6: Digital Story Critique"
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Week 6 Reading Response: Push and Pull
This week’s required reading was Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. For some reason I found myself going back to the article throughout the week, and adding on Hypothes.is once more annotations were added. I think part of it is there are so many different beliefs … Continue reading "Week 6 Reading Response: Push and Pull"
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The Price of Connectedness – Week 6 Reflective Summary
I know what I am about to write here will not go over well with everyone, so I’ll apologize in advance. I’m saying it because I need to say it not because I think that anyone needs to hear it. So, warning posted. This reflection is really just for me and to me. The events… Continue reading The Price of Connectedness – Week 6 Reflective Summary →
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Connecting, Disconnecting, and Reconnecting – Week 6 Reading Response
I have always believed that there are connections that, if you look hard enough, will bind everything together. Nothing is truly isolated. This idea was very much in focus in our readings in Lankshear and Knobel Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning. For me, this chapter reiterated ideas I… Continue reading Connecting, Disconnecting, and Reconnecting – Week 6 Reading Response →
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Removed by Eric Pinkersgill: Story Critique
Week #6: Story Critique Photographs can be found here: http://www.removed.social/angieandme This week in my reading response I wrote about how our addictions to smartphones and being connected to the internet impact or work-life balance (my focal theme). I included two … Continue reading → -
Mashup Assignment: Pokemon Put Criminals in the Pokey
This week we got to choose our type of assignment. I start out wanting to try something that involved a little writing. Then I started seeing Twitter conversations about the unexpected gameplay experiences that had cropped up after the launch of Pokemon GO. My mind kept coming back to this augmented reality game and what its … Continue reading Mashup Assignment: Pokemon Put Criminals in the Pokey
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“Emergent” Social Learning
The following response is based on: Social Learning, “push” and “pull”, and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. When …
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How a Relationship impacts your Work-Life Balance
My digital story is about Zeek Taylor and Dick Titus. My theme is work-life balance and I wanted to do something a little different this week. The story is about two gay men who had to hide their relationship for 13 years. They even went to the extreme of having two houses. I can’t imagine […]
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Stuff I read and what I think about it: Week 6 Reading Response
Stuff I read: Lankshear and Knobel (2011) Ch7: Social Learning, “Push” and “Pull,” and Building Platforms for Collaborative Learning Scott Campbell: The Importance of Being Along in the Digital Era Antero Garcia: There are No Lessons for Alton or Philando Remi Holden: An Open Letter to Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Responses to COLTT Open […]
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You’re no Artist: Digital Story Critique
This is a story that broke awhile back, but because I was so disgusted at the 'artist' lack of humanity and intelligence and her use of digital affinity, I wasn't sure how to add it to my affinity space without giving her any more credit or publicity. ... -
Daily Create 1649: Line Drawing
#tdc1649 Make Continuous Line Art Assignment: Oh no DRAWING! You can draw, trust us. See what you can create in one continuous line, no picking up the pen, cursor. You might have to think about it first! See it in … Continue reading → -
Digital Story critique
This week I waned to use the guidelines we have been using to analyze a digital story on one of my students powerful stories about Muslim’s and Islam. She is in 8th grade, and it was her goal to educate … Continue reading →
