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Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture

(Big Thinkers Series)

(Big Thinkers Series)

TEDxNYED - Henry Jenkins - 03/06/10

(Is School Enough? Series)

(Is School Enough? Series)

The Internet Inquiry Project is an online research project that helps students develop the important digital knowledge and skills needed as they build their web literacies.

There are many variations as the project is student interest driven, and may last any amount of time. The design, focus, and length of the Internet Inquiry Project should be determined by your student learning objectives,

WebQuests typically contain an introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion.

students work both individually and in small groups at using strategies and skills from the previous phases to develop lines of inquiry around curricular topics.

Another technique is to create Internet scavenger hunts connected to the curriculum. On completing the challenge, students share their searching strategies with the class.

Phase 2 is a collaborative phase during which both teachers and students conduct think-aloud demonstrations and minilessons.

Phase 1 centers on computer basics, word processing skills, Web searching, navigation basics, and e-mail.

We hope teachers can use these examples to develop their own ideas. Ideally, teachers will integrate the approach into units that they are already doing. This method ensures that students continue to develop traditional skills alongside the new skills of online reading comprehension.

Reciprocal teaching revolves around four global comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. The teacher explains these strategies to small groups using a shared text, first modeling their use, and then asking students to lead the groups.

By creating a curriculum that allows for problem-based inquiry learning, high-level discussion, and collaboration.

In small groups, the students had to choose appropriate keywords for searches. Groups shared their strategies for answering the question with the whole class.

The gradual release of responsibility to students is central to both approaches.

Reciprocal teaching revolves around four global comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.

Internet reciprocal teaching, involves problem-based tasks in which readers create their own text.

Students today must be prepared to navigate the new "Cs of change" that the 21st century has brought us. These Cs include such skills as creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and comprehension.

The structure of the textbook was a map that Sarah could easily follow.

"You do not simply answer these questions. It is not answer number one; then answer number two. These are questions you keep in the back of your mind as you work."

The market research agency Childwise has been tracking UK children’s media uses since 1997 – the very beginning of the internet for most of us. I remember interviewing a 6 year-old girl in 1997 who asked, in a puzzled voice, “is the internet something you plug into the back of your TV?” (In that project, too, the exciting new device was the CD-ROM!)

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Feeling emotionally and physically safe and a sense of belongingBecoming more involved in the chosen interests they brought to YOUmediaImproving in at least one digital media skillImproving academic skills: better communication with adults and improved writing abilityUnderstanding more about opportunities available to them after high school

Connected learning does not rely on a single technology or technique. Rather, it is fostered over time through a combination of supports for developing interests, relationships, skills, and a sense of purpose.

Understanding more about opportunities available to them after high school

Librarians and mentors organize showcases, support the production of various projects and broker connections to other opportunities in their interest area.

30,000 college graduates found that a strong connection to a faculty member doubled the positive life outcomes of graduates.

For example, when reading about games they enjoy playing, teenage boys read at a much higher level than their reading level in school.

Learning is irresistible and life-changing when it connects personal interests to meaningful relationships and real-world opportunity.

Based on her experiences writing online, Abigail decides she wants to become a professional writer

The Mismeasure of Boys: Reading and Online Videogames

The great educator John Dewey wrote that interest operates by a process of “catch” and “hold”—first the individual’s interest must be captured, and then it must be maintained. The approach required to catch a person's interest is different from the one that’s necessary to hold a person’s interest: catching is all about seizing the attention and stimulating the imagination.

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Making sense of different terminology and conventions used within online communities. Participating in both synchronous (communicating in real time) and asynchronous (time lag in communication exchanges) discussions. Discovering information and resources by asking people within social networks.

we need to provide people with open access to the skills and know-how needed to use the web to improve their lives, careers, and organizations.

reach and meet the growing number of diverse audiences using the web.

When we encourage students to use technology, do we remind them of the risks of placing their information online and give them choices of how much personal information to reveal?

We should not be throwing students into the public domain to discuss sensitive topics without having conversations with them on what they might face and which of these risks they are willing to take, how they would handle it, and how they might support each other.

digital literacy would include in-depth questions

For example, teaching digital skills would include showing students how to download images from the Internet and insert them into PowerPoint slides or webpages. Digital literacy would focus on helping students choose appropriate images, recognize copyright licensing, and cite or get permissions,

• Can explain concepts, principles, and processes by putting it their own words, teaching it to others, justifying their answers, and showing their reasoning

FIGURE 1—SAMPLE TRANSFER GOALS

Learning priorities are established by long-term performance goals—what it is we want students, in the end, to be able to do with what they have learned.

The point of school is not to simply excel in each class, but to be able to use one’s learning in other settings.

Effective curriculum is planned backward from long-term, desired results through a three-stage design process (Desired Results, Evidence, and Learning Plan). This process helps avoid the common problems of treating the textbook as the curriculum rather than a resource, and activity-oriented teaching in which no clear priorities and purposes are apparent.

Six facets of under-standing—the capacity to explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empa-thize, and self-assess—can serve as indicators of understanding.

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