Email Communication
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021
Subject: CEP 956: Welcome to Week 8 – Social Writing, Literacies, and Scholarship<\/p>\n
Hi Betul, Jeong, Suha, Abdu,
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I hope you had a wonderful Fall weekend!\u00a0Welcome to Week 8 online in\u00a0Part II: Research on Learning\u00a0<\/b>(with\/on\/through)<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Social Media \u2013 Social Writing, Literacies and Scholarship.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Login to the course site to see the\u00a0schedule for this week\u00a0(Oct 18-24)<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(Oct 18-24)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n BASE GROUP CHECK-IN\/CHECK-OUTS:<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n Please\u00a0Check-in<\/u><\/b>\u00a0with your Base Group at the beginning of the week by answering the Base Group\u00a0Check-in questions<\/i>\u00a0early in the week (e.g., Tues or Wed) and then,\u00a0Check-out<\/u><\/b>\u00a0by answering the\u00a0Check-out questions<\/i>\u00a0at the end of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1) Login to the course website.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n READINGS & ONLINE DISCUSSION<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n “Social Writing, Literacies and Scholarship”\u00a0<\/b> \u00a0<\/p>\n This week we will consider \u201clearning\u201d defined as \u201cliteracies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We can consider \u201cnew literacies\u201d or \u201cdigital\u201d literacies within particular platforms, such as the\u00a0twitteracy<\/i>\u00a0that Benjamin Gleason and I theorize in our article (see optional readings section). We can also consider the literacies more broadly needed by students, teachers, and scholars today within and across various socio-technical contexts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Week 8 Questions<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n This week\u2019s guided reading questions ask you to critically consider modern \u2018literacy\u2019 debates raised in a short news article (Rich) and the \u2018digital turn\u2019 in literacies educational research that Mills (2010) discusses in her seminal literature review published in our field\u2019s top journal:\u00a0Review of Educational Research<\/i>.\u00a0Consider how the issues surfaced in these articles, written several years ago, are\/are not still relevant today and what new issues you would raise as educational researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n While these articles consider student learning and K-16 teaching with the internet and social media, the\u00a0Social Scholarship<\/i>\u00a0article by Greenhow & Gleason (2014) suggests new forms of scholarship and scholarly communication that we as educational researchers might develop. (If you are interested in our later critique of this 2014 article, check out the Greenhow, Gleason & Staudt Willet (2019) piece within the optional readings section).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, as you reflect on these readings, what important cognitive or social or emotional issues do they raise for educational researchers to consider?\u00a0 Provide evidence from the readings to support your points, but you may also bring in points from the optional readings or other articles with which you are familiar. Remember to address all parts of each question.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n NEW!\u00a0<\/b>Scores and feedback on your outlines are on D2L<\/b>. I have met with several of you, and you are on the right track. I look forward to seeing your first draft. Please let me know if you have questions.\u00a0(NOTE: I will be away Wed 10\/20 \u2013 Sun 10\/24 so may be slower on email during this time but will try my best to answer your questions within a day or two).\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n GUEST SPEAKER?!\u00a0<\/b>I have invited Sarah Galvin, advanced PhD student and prolific author,\u00a0to join us in two weeks (11\/1) \u2013 date and time to be confirmed. I am including her article \u201cWriting on social media: A review of research in the high school classroom<\/a>,\u201d published in\u00a0Tech Trends,\u00a0<\/i>in the readings for this week so that you can review as your time and interests allow.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n REMINDER!<\/b>\u00a0 First Draft of Article for Publication due November 1. Please submit to the \u201cFirst Draft\u2026\u201d Dropbox on D2L.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n P.S.<\/b>\u00a0If you lose track of this email, no problem. I post weekly emailed reminders in the upper right-hand corner of the class website.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Email Communication Hi Betul, Jeong, Suha, Abdu,<\/p>\n I hope you had a wonderful Fall weekend!\u00a0Welcome to Week 8 online in\u00a0Part II: Research on Learning\u00a0(with\/on\/through)\u00a0Social Media \u2013 Social Writing, Literacies and Scholarship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15554,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions\/15554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2) Then, go to that week\u2019s\u00a0schedule page<\/b>\u00a0and find the Base Group Check-in (or Check-out) question for the week (e.g.,\u00a0W8 October 18-24 Async Online<\/b>\u00a0from the drop-down menu)
3) Email or otherwise contact your Base Group members when you have Checked-in and Checked-out to let them know you have done so. This way the group can help support its members, get to know its members, and build trust over time.
4) To see how your answers and scores compare with your group overall, go to the\u00a0Base Groups<\/b>\u00a0page. Find your Base Group.\u00a0\u00a0Click on your group and find the appropriate tab at the top to see the other member(s) Check-in or Check-out Answers.
**The inspiration for this week\u2019s check-in question is the idea of \u201cliteracy\u201d!\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last week we critically reflected on the findings and argument structure of published research on two of the most popular types of social media worldwide \u2013\u00a0social network sites<\/i>\u00a0(e.g., Facebook) and\u00a0microblogs<\/i>\u00a0(e.g., Twitter) \u2013 which are also the most studied in education and considered \u201clearning\u201d within these spaces as defined by several different researchers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
What \u2018literacies\u2019 do you feel scholar-teachers need to develop to work in modern day work environments? Why do you feel these literacies are important?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
VIDEO OPTION!\u00a0As we consider digital literacies, you\u00a0have the option of\u00a0<\/b>recording your initial post or response to peers as a video and sharing the link with us in the CEP 956 discussion forum for this week.\u00a0\u00a0If you choose to use Flipgrid, here are instructions for creating a\u00a0Video \u201cShort\u201d<\/a>\u00a0after you create an account as an educator on this site.\u00a0<\/b>Of course, you do not need to use Flipgrid, feel free to use other digital platforms to create your video posts.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>If you would like to express your ideas on these questions in something other than video or text, feel free to email me your idea before Wed 10\/20!<\/p>\n
UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Any questions for me, please let me know.\u00a0Thanks, and see you online!\u00a0
Chris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021
Subject: CEP 956: Welcome to Week 8 – Social Writing, Literacies, and Scholarship<\/p>\n