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...

Digital Storytelling For The Illiterate Generation(s) The eighth and final chapter of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel was like reflecting on the past seven weeks of my life from a programmatic point of view as a digital storytelling student. My first response to this was “Why didn’t I read this chapter first so I knew what I was getting into?” Then I realized, I probably would not have understood any of it had I not experienced ‘digital storytelling.’ As I was reading the chapter, I was constantly analysing the program Lankshear & Knobel suggest, and comparing to what I am experiencing in current curriculum. The first major difference in the curriculum noted in the text versus what students at CU Denver Masters in Information and Learning Technologies program experience was some limited face to face and group instruction. The MA program at CU Denver is completely online. Students may meet face to face if...

"New Literacies" Lankshear & Knobel cover with 'pull' sticker Introduction Chapter seven in New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Third Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel was like listening to the preacher preach to the choir. One of my mantras all semester has been ‘mastery.’ The mastery that develops in one’s skill by practices in creativity that lead to broader ability in ‘new literacies,’ or the ability to solve a variety of problems by utilizing various approaches through diverse practices in social learning. This may involve being keen to understanding multiple intelligences, and the ability to switch from one mode of learning to another. Or ‘learning to be’ through communities of practice and deep learning (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 218-219). Many of the participators on ds106 , and my fellow classmates in the CU Denver Masters in Information and Learning Technologies program , myself included, are learning to do many d...

Week 4 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) Ms Kitty Stop Moving tdc1269 High Tide at Torrey Pines tdc1271 DS106 Assignment Bank (Design) What Do Creative Humans Do In School? Response to Lankshear & Knobel “New Literacies” chapter one and selected scholarship Ed Reform Remix: A Response to Lankshear & Knobel Ch 4 Digital story critique Twitter As a Means of Digital Remixing: A critique of @remiholden #youthclinica15 Comment peer critiques (x2) “THE MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF DRIED HUMAN TEARS” STORY CRITIQUE Digital Story (selected scholarship) Critique #4, Week4 – Daily Mail.com: Going vegan...

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...

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...

Inspiration This may be the hardest assignment yet, and perhaps all semester. The video assignment naturally includes audio and illustration so the time required for a successful assignment is huge. I picked the “Kinetic Typography” assignment from the DS106 assignment bank . I was inspired by the Sherlock Holmes example on the landing page for the assignment. I’ve also been inspired all semester by animations and it seems half of my critiques this semester have been on animated shorts. My choice in subject matter directly relates to my theme ‘the importance of creative arts in education,’ and my scholarship with the works of Ken Robinson. I just downloaded his latest book Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education   as a mp3 that I can listen to while I work. Needless to say his well-spoken narrative voice is ringing in my head. Thumbnail Concept Creative Process I first created a very rough sketch, also known as a ‘thumbnail’ to ...