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Show Your Media Literacy

Steve Lissenden — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:28:33 +0000

Nice idea…

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate. To get things started, we have created a video that is hosted here on our YouTube Channel (also located at http://drop.io/medialiteracyvideo).

Watch the video and then we encourage you to create your own short digital representation of media literacy. Anyone can then upload their video responses or link to any digital artifact you create here in the comments to this video.

Celebrating and Sharing: Teachers and students are encouraged to take part in this exposition of student media literacy, we encourage you to promote your activities with local media outlets and draw attention to the critical importance of developing media literacy in the digital age.

An introduction to connectivism

Steve Lissenden — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:12:33 +0000

Networked Student

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.

Digital Lunch

Steve Lissenden — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:53:49 +0000

When I’m not being a Teaching Assistant or Learning Mentor I fill my ’spare’ time as a Lunchtime Supervisor. Now this gives me some real freedom in the classroom. I share my lunchtime with my Year 5 class and I got thinking that during this time we have a real opportunity to try some things out.

So I dug out my wife’s old Nintendo DS and a brain training game and I loaded up some Apps on my iPhone and gave them both out to the class to use. I also fired up the whiteboard and got a tone matrix running. They are really, and I mean really, excited to get their hands on the technology. Now the students are creating ambient music whilst we have our lunch and my main issue now is making sure everyone has a fair turn on the limited amount of kit we have whilst keeping up with how well everyone is doing on the ‘games’.

It’s early days but their enthusiasm is showing the way this needs to go. There is an old PC in the corner of the classroom which I literally blew the dust off last week but it looks like I might be able to get a net connection on it so that is going to be my focus next week. That and OFSTED inspectors but that’s another story .

Anyway and as if by magic my PLN came up trumps and tweeted this great, and very much related, post on Learn 4 Life;

What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?

Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development

Steve Lissenden — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:15:52 +0000

Came across this video by Stephen Downes after reading an interesting essay he wrote;