Perseverance Welcome back to base camp. This week I also posted the following: A Turning Point – Learning Event #5 – As you identify the arc of your story, which story are you currently living? Documenting Instructional use of Technology in Higher Education – Last week I shared a piece of research that unpacks the…
Truth and Falsehoods Digitally Lit #235 – 2/29/2020** Hi all, welcome to issue #235 of Digitally Literate. I posted and shared the following this week: Co-Constructing Digital Futures – Several members of the Screentime Research Group have been conducting research on the challenges and opportunities that exist as children grow up in an world that…
For their final capstone project for Bradley Voytek’s COGS 108 course at UCSD, a group of students examined potential disparities between actual deaths and their corresponding media attention. The final project is excellent. The subject matter…and the interactive data charts as well. For anyone curious about any of the steps throughout this project, the original data and…
An interactive piece from CNN focusing on the role of education, critical media literacy, and the fight against fake news. “What we want our students to do is … before they like or share in the social media they think twice – who has written this? Where has it been published? Can I find the…
Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, someone's lost cat and Post Malone.
Most Americans pay at least a little attention to current events, but they differ enormously in where they turn to get their news and which stories they pay attention to. To get a better sense of how a busy news cycle played out in homes across the country, we repeated an experiment, teaming up with…
This past week danah boyd presented the keynote at SXSW EDU 2018. The talk is quite nuanced, and I recommend taking the time to read it. boyd talks about how critical thinking and media literacy efforts are backfiring. She surveys some media literacy programs and sees a simplistic set of assumptions about the way media could and should…