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Ken Robinson on Flourishing Voice: Sir Ken Robinson, Director: Jim Batt, Artist: Molly Crabapple As part of the continued practice in digital storytelling, in INTE 5340 MA ILT at CU Denver, I will consume a digital stories and offer critiques. Until now the course has focused on Jason Ohler’s assessment traits as criterions to assess stories. For the remainder of the critiques in the course, I will focus on “everyday remix practices” as described in the Lankshear and Knobel text New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel , on pages 127-140. Kind of Remix: Fanfiction short movies (if one must be chosen from L&K text) Three Literacy Dimensions: 1. From making movie trailers: “May involve knowing how to include written text in the remixed video to help convey new storyline.” 2. From creating fanfiction: “Understanding the structure and purpose of narratives and using this to guide writing.” 3. From creating ...

80's kid remix (me) Upon the first read of chapter four in New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel I glossed over many of the details described in remix practices. This essentially happened because I have ‘grown up’ at an age that can be marked as the beginning of the digital age. Thus, I am very much aware of the the remixes described in chapter four. Some of which remixes I practice on an everyday basis as a means of production and to facilitate learning and explanation in my professional practice. In a way I have taken it for granted that digital remixes are a means of expressing culture and ideas as ‘new.’ It wasn’t until the second or third read that things started to ‘sink in’ for me to recognize the importance of remixing and ‘new literacies’ and that remixes are and always have been a part of human culture. Additionally there is controversy surrounding the idea of remixing and copyright laws in the dig...

What Creative Humans Do In School When I saw the Barcode Transformation ds106 design assignment I immediately gravitated to it. After reading Ken Robinson’s, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education ,I have come to understand the typical public school system as a concept emerging from the modern/industrial era. Ken Robinson also refers to “No Child Left Behind ,” and high stakes testing that is part of the current educational landscape for K-12. He even refers to the barcode system and children viewed as products with an expiration date. Ken goes on to describe people as creative human beings that would be best served under an ‘organic system’ rather than a robotic, industrial system. So in response to finishing “Creative Schools” I created this illustration with a propaganda feel utilizing the barcode assignment on ds106. For the past three weeks, I have been totally immersed in the narrative of Ken Robinson. I’ve watched his videos on T...

Week 3 Collage Introduction As part of the educational discourse in digital storytelling each week, I will conduct a reflective practice self assessment. These ‘reflections’ will serve as both formative and summative assessment to the learning goals of the course INTE 5340. See learning goals in the INTE 5340 syllabus . See DS106 syllabus . Requirements and Production The Daily Create (x2) Where I Stand tdc1262 The Power to Shape The World Through DrGarcia's Lens tdc1266 DS106 Assignment Bank (Video) Ken Robinson HG Wells Quote - Kinetic Typography Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship Ed 2.0, Affinities, And Social Responsibility: A Response to Lankshear and Knobel Chapter 3 Digital story critiques (x2) Let’s get fired up! CNN Ron Clark Academy Global Citizen A Curious Critique On A Story About A Story, About Another Story Comment peer critiques (x2) Critique Week 3-2: Critique: Edutopia- F...

In chapter three of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel the reader digs deep into the technologies and values that define ‘new literacies’ in detail. Lankshear & Knobel do not suggest that these ‘new literacies’ override convention but instead they transcend or build upon the social practices of previous eras (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 52). This is described on page fifty-three by use of a table to compare and contrast ‘modern’ and ‘postmodern’ variations between paradigms.   Lankshear and Knobel "New Literacies" p. 53 Illustrating the changes in paradigms in this manner makes it incredibly clear that when education reform is discussed, mainly, the argument for creativity and the arts, it should be relevant to some if not all of these dimensions in the ‘postmodern’ era. It is through my continued research and scholarship in the works of Ken Robinson, and his latest book, Creative Sc...