CURR 501 Digital Media Literacy

Final Project For my Final Project I created a set of Community Circle Cards to use in Community Circle alongside SEL lessons . My goal in creating this deck of Community Circle Cards was to create a platform for students to cultivate conversation and build connections . I agree with Turkle in that too often we sacrifice conversation for communication. Rooted in my belief that:  students learn best when they have authentic connections to themselves, to their classmates, to their teacher and to their learning, I started a set of Community Circle Cards that I will continue to build onto with more identity based activities.  Here is the link to my Pecha Kucha presentation ! and the corresponding Slides :)  Enjoy! 

In class Haiku challenging beliefs- facilitate, act, impact grow in perspective - Emily Keith

The Question:   How does this Ted Talk make you think about your role with young people in an online environment? A School in the Cloud  Sugata Mitra's Ted Talk "A School in the Cloud" made me think about my role in the classroom. Mitra uses his experiments to support the idea that a teacher's role is not truly to hold the weight of teaching, but rather to pose a question and provide the opportunity for student to lear through solving that question together. This supports my experience as a 1st grade teacher as the best learning happens in my classroom when I set up the activity and students then do the work and the discussing to complete their learning and figure out how to solve the problems presented. In the same manner, Mitra's talk pushed my practice in the same way. It's not just some learning that should follow this format, it is ALL learning that follows this format. I could present less information and more questions and as a result let students do mo...

 Nearpod!  My Holy Grail of remote learning  P.S. I am sorry about the length! As with anything I'm passionate about, I over shared! Feel free to skip around to the parts that might be interesting to you :) 

 Final Project Brainstorm!  I believe that students learn best when... t hey have true social connections with their classmates to create a safe, authentic, valued learning environment.  I believe that students learn best when they have real connections to their classmates and to their learning. I believe that in order for these connections to be real students identity must be fully represented in and by their learning  I believe that students learn best when they have conversations.  The Idea!  I want to create a culturally relevant deck of Morning Meeting Activity Cards that center my students, their identities/interests/voices/ideas and starts each day with conversations the build connections in my classroom.  To Do List:  Research Morning Meeting activities Adopt them to represent my students  Find a platform to design card deck on design 10-20 morning meeting activity cards!  What technologies could play a role in this project? Can...

The Question:   What is the relationship between Turkle and Wesch? Do you see them as allies or opponents in this discussion of new media and technology? Sherry Turkle argues through her Ted Talk Connected, but alone? that technology has sacrificed conversation for connection and as a result we are isolated. A quote walk through Sherry Turkle's argument: "Our little devices, those little devices in our pockets are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, the change who we are." "Why does this matter? It matters to me because I think we're setting ourselves up for trouble. Trouble certainly in how we relate to each other. But also trouble in how we relate to ourselves and our capacity for self reflection. We're getting used to a new way of being alone together; people want to be with each other, but also elsewhere." "Across the generations, I see that people can't get enough of each other, if and only if they ca ha...

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