Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills

The Podcast is a revisit on a topic we learned before regarding Media Literacy II. We used that week’s readings and videos to make connections from our personal lives, as well as connections to subsequent topics we learned, such as Social Media and Design Thinking. This podcast reinforces our learning about teaching media responsibly and engaging students.

For this weeks podcast, Marisa and I focused on Tim Brown's TED Talk, Professor Hung's video, and Donald Schon's reading Teaching and Learning as a Design Transaction. We started off by giving a quick overview of the different forms of thinking and how we relate to them. Then we wanted to talk more in depth about the TED talk example of solving problems in the world using design thinking. This cam...

This podcast focuses primarily on Schon (1992) Teaching and learning as a design transaction reading. We do discuss briefly the Forms of Thinking video and the TED Talk. Our focus is on the idea of design thinking and communication. We were able to make connections to our own teaching experiences and this weeks reading.

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The topic of this episode is social media. Wendy, Xingyue and Shahee talk about two readings and a video. The first reading is Ronson's chapter on cyber violence. Then, they discuss boyd's article about the multiple identities of youth networks. Finally, since two of the podcasters are Chinese, Shahee and Xingyue discussed their viewpoints on the social credit system in China.

For our podcast this week, Cinzia and Ann discuss both readings, the video and the Black Mirror Netflix episode. The readings they focus on were danah boyd’s "Identity: Why do teens seem strange online?", from her book "It's complicated," which talks about the trials and tribulations of today’s teens’ social life and interactions online, and their identity work in an online environment. They also...

Nico and Anthony talk about fan fiction, Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix", Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear, and Kedrick James.

Jennifer and Joanna discuss remix, Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix", Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear, and Kedrick James.

Angela, Brianna and Marissa discuss remix and education.

Tammra, Jenna and Natalie discuss Marwick and Lewis' "Media manipulation and disinformation online" and David Buckingham's "Do we really need media education 2.0?"

Taryn and Nitasha discuss Marwick and Lewis's "Media manipulation and disinformation online" and David Buckingham's "Do we really need media education 2.0?"

Kayla and Marisa discuss James Paul Gee's "Digital media and learning as an emerging field" and Farhad Manjoo's "True Enough".

Lauren and Angela discuss Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" and Richard Mayer's Multimedia Principle and Redundancy Principle.