EDFOUND14FUnderstanding Digital Essays

What Now!

• Timeline:

Now:Pick a theme:

- Maori Education- Provincial Education Pre 1877- The Establishment of 1877 Education Act- Tomorrows Schools 1989- Teaching Effectiveness- Understanding diversity.

Next week:Story boarding- Creating a story to show the theme.- Detail of information. Each scene is a PPT slide.- What is your point you like to convey to the audience.- Collect literature.

Due week:Story boarding- Convert story board into digital iMovie format.- Edit and collate the information.- Use technicians as assistance.- Hand in or submit on Moodle your story board.

Transferable Processes- Digital Essay to Traditional Essay.

Digital Essay• Model

– Brainstorm.• Story board.• Introduction• Scene 1-5 argument• Conclusion

– Draft / Practice/ Reorder– Submit.– Reflect.– Debrief.

Traditional EssayModel

Brainstorm.Pre-writing which involves researching the topic and planning your approachWriting which involves completing the first full draft of the essayRe-writing which involves re-drafting, revising and proofreading your work

Submit.Reflect. Debrief.

digital immigrant/ Gen X digital natives/ Net Generation

Teaching Pedagogy

• Technology is simply a tool. It is how one uses the tool in order to create learning and fully engage students thinking and understanding of a topic or subject

How can you use ICT tools to create

effective learning and engagement?

Transferable learningDigital Essays

• Foundation– Understand what is to be done by research and

reading.– Gather information and create an understanding/

argument.

Digital essay

Brainstorm

Digital EssayDigital Essay

Perform/ Practice

Digital Essay.Submit.

Understanding Theories.

Submit.

Individual submissionsDigital Essays

Submit.

Understanding Digital Essay

• How does it meet the ideals of essay writing?

• How does it meet academic rigor at tertiary level?

• Assessment criteria given at the beginning.

Discussion

• Foundation students get their digital essays back and read the comments and critically analyse what they could do better and what needs to be worked on.

• Summary1. what was learnt, 2. what can be done better, 3. what I (we) know now.

• Basically looking back on experiences.

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Reflection

UpLoAd oNliNe

• “our digital immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.” (Prensky 2001)

Where are we heading?

There are no natives here!!

• All is not lost with digital migrants. The new wave of technology for learning is for all regardless when you were born and where you are at with technology.

• A new way of seeing with an old way of thinking– Wikipedia– Blogging– RSS link

References:Beacker, H., (2000). Pedagogical motivation for pupil computer use that lead to pupil engagement. Educational

Technology, 40 (5), pp.5-17

Hirst, M. (2006). Broadcast to Narrowcast: how digital technology is reshaping the mass media. Paper presented at the Second Joint Journalism Education (JEA)/ Journalism Education Association of New Zealand (JEANZ) conference, Auckland, December 4-7.\

Freire, P. (1972) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, London: Penguin.

Kennedy, G., Krause, K., Judd, T., Churchward, A., & Gray, K. (2006). First Year Students’ Experiences with Technology: Are They Really Digital Natives? Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne. Retrieved April 10, 2007, from http://www.bmu.unimelb.edu.au/research/munatives/natives_report2006.rtf

Kennedy, G., Krause, K.-L., Gray, K., Judd, T., Bennett, S., Maton, K., Dalgarno, B. & Bishop, A. (2006). Questioning the Net Generation: A collaborative project in Australian higher education. In L. Markauskaite, P. Goodyear & P. Reimann (Eds.), Who’s learning? Whose technology? Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australiasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (pp. 413-417). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Mollgaard, M. (2006). Radio journalism in the age of podcasting. Paper presented at the Second Joint Journalism Education (JEA)/Journalism Education Association of New Zealand (JEANZ) conference, Auckland, December 4-7.

Oblinger , D. (2004) TheNext Generation of Education Engagement. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2004 (8).

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon 9(5):pp. 3-6.