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A Media Literate Rhapsody

11 Wednesday Apr 2018

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There was some significant ideas that stood out throughout this semester:

  • It is beneficial to be digital residents, but you have to be educated on how to use it responsibly and proactively.
  • Our class is composed of a great diversity of educators that provide refreshing perspectives on many topics.
  • Being critical and skeptical are integral parts of life online and offline.
  • While we can educate students who belong to a particular generation, we have to be aware of the role of parents and everyone else in society who possess different worldviews and perspectives than what the students are educated on. Everyone needs education.
  • Literacy is what all teachers are trying to accomplish regardless of whether or not it is digital, media, or scientific literacy.

Thanks for a great semester everyone!
– Logan Petlak
My summary of learning video:


Lyrics:

Live critical lives,
In Digital reality.
Connected not alone
Online’s another part of me.
In ECI
We’re learning bout literacy
Old Facebook Logan, he was embarrassing
Because he didn’t ask, didn’t know.
Should I share? Should I post?
For science teachers though, maybe I will make policy
for literacy
Students, deconstruct this “fact”
Dig-Citizenship is what I want
It’s culturally significant.
Social, media and us are one.
But what about parents not in class todayyyy?
All of us, ooo
Can we all be digitally-wise?
To be digital residents for all tomorrows
Literallyyy everything, we consume matters.Oh hey, Ribble’s nine elements (“munts”)
Digital literacy emphasized?
Sharing anything seems like a crime.
Why didn’t anybody, fact-check this post?
Check your personal bias to find the truth.
Students, in my classroom (critically assess all news posts)
To truly live online
I’d be skeptical of everything I saw!

I made a comment on a post made by a man
He told me, he told me, I’m a liberal psycho!
He really just could not see, I’m helping soc-i-e-ty!
ALEC COUROS, ALEC COUROS
ALEC COUROS, ALEC COUROS
ALEC COUROS told me so – WORK WITH ME BRO
But fake news is all over the TV
It’s freaking everywhere, corrupting ideologies
Overcome this challenge fight cognitive ease!
Easy to, blindly follow, every single post
ARE CLAIMS VALID – What about this post?
(BOUT THIS POST)
WHY SAY THAT – What about this post? (BOUT THIS THOUGH)
NO I CAN’T – I will scroll past this post.
(ABOUT THIS THOUGH)

WON’T SCROLL PAST THIS POST (PAST THIS POST)
WILL SCROLL PAST THIS POST (PAST THIS POST)
HELP ME COUROS
PLEASE HELP ME AL-EC COUR-OS
OH MEDI-AH AH MEDI-AH AH MEDIA ACROSS THE GLOBE
MINING DATA IS A TERRIFYING THOUGHT TO ME
AND THEE
AND KITTIES

Teach responsible use in your teaching time!

Be proactive rather than reactive online
Oh Amy, thanks for computer commandments Amy!

Educate about, educate for all of these things.
Nice post – Nice post

Fellow EdTech classers
Glad you could teach me

All we’re really after, all we’re ever after is literacy. (Thank you Alec Couros).

Can we ever be “fully literate” in all dimensions of literacy?

19 Monday Mar 2018

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Am I “fully literate”?

Is anyone?

As evidenced on my page, I believe we are all lifelong learners, so is it even a fair question to consider the notion that there exists a specific point in literacy that we officially “hit” and are considered “fully literate”?

Probably not, the idea of literacy seems too subjective.

Indicators exist in certain subject-areas that would serve as evidence to infer literacy-attainment, so in that sense we can create benchmarks for literacy. But when considering the ever-shifting development of subjects and or expanding knowledge on learning, benchmarks today may shift tomorrow. What is the next benchmark or desired milestone associated with grades and subjects?

Being literate today is a tall order (inadvertently implying that it was necessarily any easier at different points in history). I feel like becoming fully literate today has become synonymous with wisdom, utilitarianism and benevolence (or maybe that’s just my view on it). But you’d think the wise would know that you can never be fully literate (this is me thinking that I’m wise).

Literacy seems almost synonymous with learning (you have to learn to be literate). If you’re capable of continuous learning, consuming information, and improving in all dimensions of literacy (or perceived important ones of today), with certain benchmarks, maybe that’s the way!

BUT WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WITH BARRIERS TO LEARNING AND INFORMATION CONSUMPTION?! IS THE SAME BENCHMARK OF “FULL LITERACY” STILL A SPECIFIC GOAL DESIRED?! HOW DOES “FULL LITERACY” APPLY THEN?!

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A Scientifically Literate Student via SK Curriculum

This brings me back to my post about media literacy and, as Carter also said in his vlog, it is needed. And to me, social and media literacy almost seems to transcend specific subject literacies. But then I think of how important scientific literacy is and how passionate I am about it (so much so that I’m making a resource for it an media literacy) – and how that, too, is needed for citizens today. Yet it needs to be delivered in a non-Eurocentric way which requires some cultural literacy.

Aside: these are great considerations for the development of my science resource.

The considerations are making my head spin, though. We probably need some form of benchmark to provide students with skills to become “fully literate” in today’s society, yet don’t want to be so specific that it becomes constrictive or culturally-uniform (devoid of diversity). The reality is that there are many different forms of literacy that I haven’t listed yet that are important to the holistic growth of individuals (health and physical literacy, for example) and all need to be pursued when able. Especially when all of these forms of literacy depend on one another as an intricate web enhancing the impact of another.

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Literacies for the Digital Age via Educorp

If all forms of literacy are continuously pursued, beyond the benchmarks, we become the benevolent, wise, and “fully” (but not really, “fully”) literate. As educators we have to be pursuing this personally, regardless of the courses/subjects we instruct, to model this for our students as well.

Agree? Disagree?

Get at me!
– Logan Petlak

 

The Need for Media Literacy

18 Sunday Mar 2018

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Media literacy is an integral part of learning.

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Global Competencies via AML

Many of the “to do’s” of media literacy, as evidenced in vlog posts by Dani and Luke are pretty straightforward and may occur in courses anyway without the deliberate classification as media literacy. Literacy in senior English includes media literacy in dissecting all elements of literature including the writer and content of the piece. History courses analyze the context in which historical events occurred much like we would analyze all the factors surrounding articles and posts.

I think that it is a very easy-to-realize goal of extending media literacy (specifically in the digital realm) into many, if not all, subject-based classrooms. It seems like it would be the most relevant learning for students as well (at least in the environment in which I instruct, high school), which should increase engagement. I would hope that this is a trend that more and more educators seek to address in their classrooms, but how would I ever know that its occurring when I’m busy teaching? Prep time rarely gets used to observe other educators as many of us re trying to keep our head above water working on marking/prepping. This presents the necessity for it to be required/enforced at an administrative or divisional level. And this presents the question then: does every teacher need to do it then? Is it a part of teacher assessment and professional growth for us all as a profession? I’m biased, obviously, but I think it should be! Do you agree?

With this in mind, what currently is happening in my school regarding media literacy? How are we educating students about digital citizenship and media literacy?

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Screenshot of ccicyclonenation post on Instagram.

At Central Collegiate we have been fortunate that administration encourages opportunities for sharing and leadership as educators supporting one another with educational technology. In addition, individual teachers are encouraged to take “risks” and utilize social media as a means to build community at Central Collegiate.

Our school social media, differs from that of each of our educator’s social media posts, as its very much about the school, not personal (obviously). With different types of sharing occurring with each of us teachers, I think that diversity in types of sharing is reflective of the diversity present in schools and also illustrate that necessity for instruction and unpacking of the idea of media literacy for everyone (this extends to include other roles within the school including facilities, office/administrative positions, and support staff), does this become mandatory and assessed in the same way it occurs for educators?

It’s still kind of a grey area when considering personal media use as evidenced by our ECI 832 discussion with Patrick Maze. There are some obvious things to avoid, and there are some things that perhaps shouldn’t be posted, but are arguably okay depending on perspectives. This raises that learning and modelling digital responsibility (and ultimately, media literacy) as individuals working with students and youth. Would we be okay with a student sharing something like what we post? Are selfies okay? And is that wide range of subjectivity regarding “what’s okay” a good means to go forward, rather than a definitive line?

I’m not sure on these questions regarding the future of media literacy, but it is a big part of society and culture today that we all need to be educated on.