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Election 2.0
Angela Housand
University of North Carolina
Brian Housand
East Carolina University
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21st Century Skills Map
21st Century Skills
• Creativity & Innovation
• Communication
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• Internet Communication Technologies (ICT) Literacy
# of people receiving Obama text message2,900,000
Obama• Obama’s Campaign
changed the way presidential candidates connect with their audience by utilizing modern media outlets: text messaging, advertising in video games, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, and more.
• Eisenhower beat Adlai E. Stevens, by utilizing 1952’s modern media, television. With short messages, catchy slogans, and a polished image, Eisenhower surpassed Stevens who gave long speeches to educate and inform.
Eisenhower
21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Analyze how
media format influences media messages. Analyze how the meaning of a message is influenced by the specific media and the historic context in which the message is conveyed.
• EXAMPLE: Using the recent presidential campaigns, identify similarities and differences between campaign media. Make inferences about which was more successful and provide supporting evidence.
21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Describe
how various forms of visual media are designed to influence beliefs and behaviors. Evaluate specific visual media with the following criteria: source, objectivity, and technical accuracy.
• EXAMPLE: Research a variety of campaign advertisements. Identify the purpose and message of the content
21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Access and
critique sources of information from various types of media, which discuss an historic event. Students analyze the difference between public and private sources of information.
• EXAMPLE: Students view various campaign propaganda to make decisions about purpose and intended audience to critically evaluate the content of the message.
21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Describe
how various forms of visual media (e.g. graphics, design, composition) are designed to influence beliefs and behaviors.
• EXAMPLE: Students view various campaign propaganda to identify the objective, purpose, audience, and intended message. Compare and contrast across campaigns.
Google Trends Data for VP Debate
21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Access,
reference, and present information using multiple sources that offer diverse perspectives.
• EXAMPLE: Students compare presidential debate content with Google search data. Utilize discrepancies in data sources (Google Trends and Presidential Debate) to inform candidates about issues for focus.
21st Century Skill: Creativity and Innovation• OUTCOME: Students
evidence original thought and inventiveness in response to an assignment, issue or problem.
• EXAMPLE: Students create an interactive timeline. The life of a historic figure is mapped sequentially and integrated with historic events presented in images, story, or poem.
21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• OUTCOME: Use technology to graphically display data about community or state public issue and ask questions about and pose possible solutions to the issue
• EXAMPLE: Students research important community issues and collect date to defend a position a mock town hall meeting. Students present convincing arguments about how they plan to address community concerns as president.
MySpace FaceBook
McCain 198,690 599,979
Obama 777,376 2,268,778
As of 10/26/2008
21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• OUTCOME: Use technology
to research and graphically display a reasonable analysis of and prediction about a public issue. Working through a student-safe social networking site, groups of students post a podcast that presents their analysis of a current public issue and prediction about a preferred candidate.
• EXAMPLE: Students use voting patterns, demographic data and socio-economic data from online resources to predict the outcome of elections. Students present their election projection, with supporting evidence. Position discussions continue throughout the election campaign.
21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• OUTCOME: Access information to discover the interconnections between government services and their location in the community.
• EXAMPLE: Students use online resources to better understand the issues important to the community, region, or state of residence and select a candidate based on priority issues.
21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Gather
original data from various information sources and create graphs or charts to display the information.
• EXAMPLE: Students use online data (e.g. # of supporters) and create spreadsheets to evaluate the data and make predictions about election outcomes.
21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• OUTCOME: Students use a variety of electronic media to research and present an historic event that impacted the community.
• EXAMPLE: Students make predictions, based on research on the campaign, about what the resolution of the election will mean for their family, community, and state.
Election 2.0
Angela Housand
University of North Carolina
Brian Housand
East Carolina University
