Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills

In this podcast, we discuss the Draft New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Learning Standards. We provide a background on why and how the standards were developed and we break down how they are organized. Focusing on the digital literacy standards, we share personal anecdotes and ideas about how these standards can be implemented in the classroom, we reflect on how they might be mod...

We are going to discuss Connected Learning through the following talking points of economical, social, technological trends and the challenges they pose to the transformation of our current educational system. Learning is meaningful when it is part of valued relationships, shared practice, culture, and identity. Young people need connection and translation between in-school and out-of-school learn...

In our Podcast, we focused on a Ted Talk by TIm Brown about Design Thinking, and an article by Donaid A. Schön (Department of Urban Studies and Planning) titled “Teaching and learning as a design transaction.” Our conversation centered around communication and the issues surrounding the inherent misunderstandings that result. We used the examples from the video and article to illustrate this. We d...

On this week's Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills, Laura, Justine, Mary, and Eilene will be talking about Design Thinking 2. They will discuss the Schon (1992) Teaching and learning as a design transaction article, as well as Tim Brown, Urges Designers to Think Big, Ted Talk. 

Welcome to our Podcast on Design Thinking , a non-traditional learning style that may change the way you teach and learn forever. In this episode we discuss "abductive reasoning" which is the type of learning that goes along with design thinking . Abductive reasoning involves jumping into a problem without knowing all the information yet; it's a very hands on approach. In our talk we discussed our...

In this podcast, Byron Stewart and Solveig Comer discuss social media, the reliability of Wikipedia, and the social aspects of Wikipedia behind the scenes. We also discuss how appropriate social media and wikipedia are for use in K-12 classrooms and look forward to digital literacy in the future.

In this podcast from Brooke White, Chris Horton and Michael Califano, we address the debate over social media within the classroom. We connect our thoughts, ideas, and personal experiences concerning social media and technology use as a learning tool to current research and educational hypotheses. Thank you all for listening!

This Social Media II podcast covers a range of topics surrounding social media in today’s education system. We will be discussing social media platforms in the classroom, with a particular focus on Twitter and Facebook. We will discuss some examples as to when it has proven to be effective in the classroom, as well as some pitfalls to watch out for. Readings that we referenced include: Greenhow an...

In our podcast, we touched on both the boyd and Ronson readings. After giving a brief overview of social media, as it’s discussed in boyd’s chapter, we presented both positive and negative aspects of social media. We all concluded with different ways we believed social media could be introduced to classrooms, specifically art and elementary classes.

Welcome back! During their second episode of their podcast, Ellen Derr, Nikki Weber, and Elaheh Salari discuss social media. Their conversation focuses on this week's readings God That Was Awesome, Why Do Teens Seem Strange Online and an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror. They also discuss some of their personal views on social media and how it has impacted their lives. Thanks for listening!

The podcast’s main focus was about the Chinese social credit system and our view points on the system as a whole. As a team we collected our information from the video and reading (by Elgan) which was provided to us in class. The Chinese social credit system is in place to create an ideal “model citizen” in society based on rules and regulations. When a citizen does not obey the system they are “b...

We are living in a world where everything is a remix. During this episode, Ellen Derr, Nikki Weber, and Elaheh Salari discuss what the word remix means to them and how they can apply it in their professional lives as well as their personal lives. They also break down their favorite parts of Kirby Ferguson's video "Everything is a Remix Remastered." Thanks for listening!

This week, Laura Erwin, Eilene Paul, and Justine Moody spoke about Remix. We discuss Remix in terms of What is remix? Is it to combine or edit material to create something new- first seen in music? What role does remix have in cultural production? We looked at the huge influence on our musical influences and styles, by adding and switching techniques and the video “everything is a remix”. How shou...

All people especially children learn from the media in their environments. What they see, what they hear and ultimately what they experience. This media surrounds us. How can we sort through the digital media today? Focusing on our role as educators and parents in the growing digital world that we live in today, we ourselves need to understand the media and the avenues of that media throughout our...

Jalesia Williams and Christopher Schimpf discuss important topics introduced in the readings “(2015) Do we really need media education 2.0?” as well as “(2017) Media manipulation and disinformation online”. Students will also take a different approach on the podcast, Christopher Schimpf representing Media 1.0 as Jalesia Williams represents Media 2.0.

Michael and Chris discuss the three readings for Media Literacy, we focus on the main points of the readings and discuss their implications for teachers and other members of society. This week's readings were very interesting and spawned a good discussion that we hope you will enjoy and find helpful. We mostly discussed the two Manjoo readings but we did discuss Gee in the beginning. 

In this first podcast from Brooke White and Christine Owens, we discuss topics such as the Multimedia Principle and the Redundancy Principle. We connect our thoughts, ideas, and personal experiences concerning differentiation to current research and educational hypotheses. Lastly, we discuss Tufte’s stance on PowerPoint presentation and its effects on both the educator and the learner. Thank you f...

Our podcast focuses on the readings for Visual Literacy II. We review the Multimedia Principle and The Redundancy Principle by Clark and Mayer, and The cognitive style of PowerPoint by Tufte. We discuss different types of graphics and how they can effectively compliment text in eLearning and we talk about when text or graphics can be unnecessary or have a negative effect on the learner. Finally we...

In this first podcast from Byron Stewart & Solveig Comer, we discuss the topic of Visual Literacy and its role in educational settings. Included are our favorite terms related to visual literacy and how it has changed and continues to change education. Thanks for listening!

In our final episode for the semester, Jennifer and Nico revisit our discussion of social media as it relates to 21st century skills.

In this podcast, Anthony and Nico discuss the Ito et al's Connected Learning reading. We go over what connected learning means and then we talk about experiences in our life where we learned something using connected learning. We then discuss some of the case studies done in the reading and give our thoughts on those and how they connect to some of the experiences that we have had in college.

We revisited social media and discussed several different class readings and videos we were exposed to in those weeks. We evaluated the Netflix Black Mirror Episode and talked about how it relates to our world now, where we see this today, and how we all felt about the concept. We also spoke about Impressions Management and whether or not we felt it was dishonest or normal/acceptable. Later we com...

For our podcast this week, we (Cinzia and Ann) did a revisit of Remix and discussed the readings and video from that week. Based on the feedback given on our last Podcast, we did a bit more conversational back and forth, gave more personal incites and personal examples, and tried to make it a bit more interesting overall. We also added background music during the reading of quotes by Ferguson to g...

During this podcast we revisited Social Media I. We focused on the readings from boyd (2014) Identity: Why do teens seem strange online? and Ronson (2015) God that was awesome. Additionally we talked about a few topics from these readings, including Impressions Management, Public Shaming, Social Media Score, and whether or not social media is good or bad for society.

We are talking about forms of thinking, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and abductive reasoning. And we also talking about Tim Brown's TED Talk, and share our examples and ideas to introduce how design thinking is useful in our lives and how we use design thinking to innovate. We are interested in the silent game, which is used in teaching and learning, and we provide ideas about how it...