It all started with a conversation about participatory culture. Henry Jenkins was the 'resident expert' as we gathered ideas, quotes, insights from readings, blog posts and video. The "parking lot" created in Today's Meet was a busy place as each of the students in the class captured an 'aha' idea in this collaborative space. These ideas were collated and curated into the interactive word cloud seen to the right.
You can see more about this topic on the course site for this week - Participatory Culture - where the video and blog links are available. The google docs for the group tasks are closed since these are private work spaces for student use. Participatory culture by debate! |
Then we took some time to review The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement. The article written by Renee Hobbs was the starting point and the Teacher Backgrounder from Media Smarts Canada provided a succinct summary for some engaged conversations. First, each student took the survey. Then the debate began in earnest. The results are posted here for some deeper conversation about what this means - considering the respondents are teacher candidates early in their teaching careers. (Wonder how this would compare to practicing teachers in Canadian contexts or other teacher candidates in both Canadian and global contexts?)