CEP 956: Welcome to Week 12 (Nov 30-Dec 6) Online
Welcome to Week 12 online in Part III: Social Media, Pedagogy & Policy.
I hope you’re having a good Monday! This email contains important updates and one change to your assignment for this online week. Thanks for reading it carefully.
Login to the course site to see the schedule for this week (November 30-December 6):
W12: Nov 30-Dec 6
BASE GROUP CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUTS:
Please Check-in with your Base Group at the beginning of the week by answering the Base Group Check-in questions early in the week and then, Check-out by answering the Check-out questions at the end of the week.
READINGS & ONLINE DISCUSSION
“ Social Media & Policy: Access, Use and Outcomes”
Last week we considered research on how to “teach” or “facilitate learning” with social media among various groups in various contexts such as K-12 education, college students, adults, and teachers as learners in teacher education.
This week we’ll consider the discussions we’ve been having about “mind” (various theories, aspects and types of learning) and “media” (broad and specific social media and media generally) in “society” as we consider policy perspectives in our discussion.
– What role do we as researchers play in informing and influencing policies?
– What policies do we need?
– What controversies exist in the policy realm related to our topic?
– How do we think about educational technology policy in the broader context of U.S. educational policy? These readings raise some of these questions.
Please read the three posted readings by Greenhow, et al. and Krutka, et al., and Ahn et al. as you think about the posted discussion forum question (W12 Q1) for this week. Skim the other optional readings as your time and interests allow.
Complete the second synthesis question (W12 Q2) in the online discussion forum. This one asked you to reflect on the readings as a whole and synthesize what you’ve learned.
NEW! No responses to peers are required for this week so that you may focus on your two initial posts and your article writing. That said, I encourage you to review what your peers have written in the forum and be ready to discuss synchronously in class on December 7th.
PREPARE TO SHARE YOUR ARTICLE SUMMARY – MONDAY, DECEMBER 7
Please be ready to informally share a summary of your article in class on Monday, December 7 so that we can learn what each person is writing. No need to prepare a formal presentation, but be ready to speak for about 5 minutes on:
- What is the title of your article?
- What type of article is it (research, conceptual, practitioner-oriented, other?)
- Where are you going to submit it?
- If you had to summarize/pitch your article to us in 4-5 minutes so that we would want to read it, what would you say? (Say it!)
- Question & Answer (5 minutes) for each paper.
UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS
- Initial post for wk 12 online due Thursday, December 3 by midnight: 2 QUESTIONS!
- NO REQUIRED RESPONSES to peers this week (optional).
- W12 Discussion Synthesis – Instructor
- Second Draftdue TODAY Monday, November 30–> Submit to “Second Draft” Dropbox on D2L
- Response to Reviewersdue on TODAY Monday, November 30 –> Submit to “Response to Reviewers” Dropbox on D2L
- Optional: sign up for a 30 min mtng to discuss your paper on Dec 1
- Share your article summary in class on Monday, December 7
- Final article due December 18 to D2L
Any questions for me, please let me know. Thanks, and see you online!
Chris
