Digital Media Literacy
Dr. Lesley Bogad
CURR 550
Rhode Island College
Summer Session II — 2019
About Me…
7 Things To Know
About You
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5. Something about media you consume/produce
6. Something about technology you use
7. Something about your popular culture history
Our Digital Syllabus
Anchors of the Course
New
Media:
Kids as
Digital Natives
Critical
Pedagogy:
Empowering
Education
Media as
Ideology:
A Cultural Studies
Approach
Anchors of the Course
New
Media:
Youth as
Digital Natives
Critical
Pedagogy:
Empowering
Education
Media as
Ideology:
A Cultural Studies
Approach
Anchors of the Course
New
Media:
Youth as
Digital Natives
YOUTH AND NEW MEDIA:
Youth today are shaped by the media/digital world around them. This course begins with the assumption that youth today are part of the Millennial Generation, or Net Gen, or sometimes called “Digital Natives” to borrow from the work of Marc Prensky. Current research suggests that those who have grown up fully immersed in digital technologies not only experience the world in new ways — their brains are actually changing to adapt to the changing world around them. While growing up digitally does not guarantee the development of digital literacy skills, this reality does reframe our basic knowledge about who young people are and how they engage the world.
Lesley Meredith Bogad
(Los Angeles, mid-1970s)
Apple II - 1977
Apple IIe - 1983
Macintosh SE - 1989
Lesley Meredith Bogad
(Los Angeles, mid-1970s)
Partially adapted from the ideas of Marc Prensky
Further adapted and plagiarized (with permission) from
Dr. Susan Patterson, Lesley University (Boston, MA)
www.marcprensky.com
Conventional Speed
Step-by-Step
Linear Processing
Text First
Stand-Alone
The Digital
Immigrant Accent
Examples:
Did you get my email?
Brains like ours alter profoundly to fit the technologies and practices that surround them.
— Andy Clark
Director, Cognitive Sciences Program, Indiana University
June 21, 2019
Students are not just using technology differently today, but are approaching their life and their daily activities differently because of the technology.
— Net Day
“Speak-Up Day” Summary
Growing Up Online: Young People
and Digital Technologies
SANDRA WEBER & SHANLY DIXON
“Whenever I go to school I have to ‘power down’”
– a high school kid
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
Web 3.0...???
Consumers
Producers
www.blogger.com
Anchors of the Course
New
Media:
Kids as
Digital Natives
Critical
Pedagogy:
Empowering
Education
Media as
Ideology:
A Cultural Studies
Approach
Anchors of the Course
Critical
Pedagogy:
Empowering
Education
CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND
EDUCATIONAL REFORM:
The educational landscape of 2017 is a conflicted place where the realm of standardized testing, regulation and routine bumps up against the needs of creativity, innovation and learning. This course rests on the assumption that public schools should be driven by a commitment to social justice, equity and inclusion that values all learners, an assumption that challenges the current educational status quo.
What are your best memories
of learning?
I believe that learning happens when...
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html
April 2013
Anchors of the Course
New
Media:
Kids as
Digital Natives
Critical
Pedagogy:
Empowering
Education
Media as
Ideology:
A Cultural Studies
Approach
Anchors of the Course
MEDIA AS IDEOLOGY:
Popular culture is not just a form of entertainment. The media play a critical role in teaching us about the world. Film, television, music, the internet, advertising, fashion and other forms of popular/digital culture shape the daily lives of all Americans whether we celebrate or resist their influence. We must learn to see the things we take most for granted, to analyze and interpret the media around us in order to understand how these things contribute to how we think about what is “normal,” “natural,” and “good.” In this class, we will take the media seriously as an educating force.
Media as
Ideology:
A Cultural Studies
Approach
Dominant Ideology
IDEOLOGY
Dominant Ideology
“an ideology is basically a system of meaning that helps define and explain the world and that makes value judgments” (Croteau, 159)
IDEOLOGY
Dominant
Mainstream
Normalized
Naturalized
Commonly Understood
Common Sense
Resistant
Alternative
Challenging
Marginalized
Oppositional
Other
Dominant
Mainstream
Normalized
Naturalized
Commonly Understood
Common Sense
Dominant
Mainstream
Normalized
Naturalized
Commonly Understood
Common Sense
Dominant
Ideology
Dominant Ideology
Grinner’s
S.C.W.A.A.M.P.
Grinner, Leslie. (2012) “Hip-Hop Sees No Color: An Exploration of Privilege and Power in Save the Last Dance” in Rebecca Ann Lind, ed. , Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers. 2nd ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Reading ideology…