Desinging To Learn

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) To Be A Kid Again: The Daily Create 1254 Blind Contour tdc1258 DS106 Assignment Bank (Audio) Rain Chimes Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship How Discourse and Creativity Express Meaning Digital story critiques (x2) Critiquing A Reflection On Learning A Critique of complex simplicity:The Poetic Dance Between Simplicity and Uncertainty in Physics Comment peer critiques (x2) Digital Stories Critique 2: Outdoor Education (student vs. teacher perspective) “BUCKMINSTER FULLER ON THE GEODESIC LIFE” CRITIQUE ...

Moving from literacy and ‘new literacies’ to D iscourse. In chapter one of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel . I learned about literacy as a historical concept and a social practice. I also learned about new literacies as ‘paradigmatic’ and ‘ontological’ (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 27). In chapter two I began to learn more about literacy as a social practice through Discourses and encoded texts. “Hence, literacies are ‘socially recognized ways in which people generate, communicate, and negotiate meanings, as members of Discourses, through the medium of encoded texts.”  (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 50). As a social practice one can think of literacy as observable ‘things’ humans do with their bodies and minds to create meaning. Lankshear and Knobel cite the work of Scribner and Cole to describe these practices as “consisting of three components: technology, knowledge, and skills. (ibid,: 2...