Desinging To Learn

Week 7 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 DS106 Assignment Bank (Video Assignment) Creative Education Compilation: VideoAssignments1736 Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship Social Learning Trajectories: A Response to Lankshear & Knobel Chapter 8 Digital story critique The Cake is Not a Lie: A Critique of Portal 2 Puzzle Maker "Making Space for Physics" Comment peer critiques (x2) Week 7: Critique (I only found 1 critique to examine posted by other classmates this week!) Comment peer chapter responses (x2) Moving Towards "Pull"- Last L&K Response We need...

Creative Arts in Education Throughout the semester while researching scholarship related to ‘the importance of creative arts in education,’ I’ve looked at many YouTube videos. I’ve critiqued and examined mostly creative everyday remix practices of teachers and the works of Ken Robinson . To round it all out, I wanted to create something that showed the students. What does it look like when creative arts are implemented into education? Different Colors I chose to compile the videos set to Walk the Moon Different Colors . Since the first time I heard this song it made me think about why teachers do what they do and fight to make better experiences for their students. Hence the lines, “this is why we’re biting the bullet, we know the kids are right.” It’s not easy to change the landscape of ‘high stakes testing’ and integrate engaging, creative curriculum. Although there have been great improvements at some schools, as can be seen in the compilation video, others still lag beh...