1.
Renee Hobbs
University of Rhode Island
Media Education Lab
Chariho Public Schools
November 8, 2017

2.
Literacy is the sharing of meaning
through symbols

3.
Literacy is the sharing of meaning
through symbols

4.
Rhetoric
Print Literacy
Visual Literacy
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Computer Literacy
Critical Literacy
News Literacy
Digital Literacy
Putting Literacy into Historical Context

5.
12
Flavors of
Digital
Literacy
SKILLS & ABILITIES
➢ Computer Use and Knowledge
➢ Digital Skills
LITERACY
➢ Online Reading & New Literacies
➢ Media Production & Composition
➢ Coding / Programming
TEACHING WITH
➢ Technology Integration
➢ Digital Learning
➢ Blended Learning
➢ Connected Learning
TEACHING ABOUT
➢ Information Literacy
➢ Media Literacy
➢ Digital Citizenship

6.
12
Flavors of
Digital
Literacy
SKILLS & ABILITIES
➢ Computer Use and Knowledge
➢ Digital Skills
LITERACY
➢ Online Reading & New Literacies
➢ Media Production & Composition
➢ Coding / Programming
TEACHING WITH
➢ Technology Integration
➢ Digital Learning
➢ Blended Learning
➢ Connected Learning
TEACHING ABOUT
➢ Information Literacy
➢ Media Literacy
➢ Digital Citizenship

7.
How are students “creating to
learn” in your classroom?
How are you supporting the
development of student autonomy
and authority as authors?
What current activities
could be modified so
that students experience
the power of digital
authorship?
What potential impact might these
activities have for learners?

8.
Digital authorship is a creative and collaborative process that
involves experimentation and risk taking. Students take on authority
when they have a real audience and strategic purpose.
When they create, students build upon what they have previously
learned through comprehending other media texts. Digital authors
enter into cultural conversation when they use, share and build
upon the ideas of others.
Classroom instructional practices reflect their complex & personal
love-hate relationship that educators have with print, visual, sound
and digital media. Digital authorship is a form of social power and so
students and teachers need to negotiate the exercise of creative
control.
PREVIEW

9.
Authors are the
guardians of
collective
memory
Who is an Author?

10.
Who is an Author?
Lone Wolf Collaborator

11.
Authors are autonomous individuals with vivid
sensations and a powerful overflow of
spontaneous feelings that get articulated
through creative expression.
Who is an Author?

12.
Authors express their
personal subjective
understandings, feelings
and drives, exposing the
irrationality at the roots
of a supposedly rational
world.
MODERNISM
Who is an Author?

13.
Learning to Write & Writing to Learn

14.
As you watch, consider:
Why is becoming an author a
transformative experience?

15.
A Old Saying in Cambodia:
“Before you die, you have to write a book,
plant a tree, and have a baby.”

16.
Developing from the French
New Wave cinema of the
1950s, the idea is that film
directors have a distinctive
visual style, technical
competence and consistent
themes or interior
meanings.
Authorship is Multimodal

17.
Authorship is about
control, power and the
management of
meaning and of
people as much as it is
about creativity and
innovation.
Authorship is a Form of Social Power

18.
We are All Readers and Writers

19.
As you watch, consider:
How does this video depict
the the way people learn by
creating media?

20.
Digital authorship is a creative and
collaborative process that involves
experimentation and risk taking. Students
take on authority when they have a real
audience and strategic purpose.

21.
At any moment, the reader is ready
to turn into a writer.
-Walter Benjamin

22.
Readers Become Writers

23.
too much information
too little time

24.
We know from Project Information Literacy that
students actively try to reduce the number of
choices they have to make in order to get their
assignments done.
We know from the Citation Project that first year
college students who use sources in their writing
rarely write about them with much understanding.
They don’t summarize sources, they harvest
quotes.
Nearly half the time, the quotes they use are from
the first page of the source.
We

25.
Kami PDF & Document Markup
http://chrome.google.com
A Student PDF Annotation

26.
A Student Annotates a Video
ANT Video Annotation
https://ant.umn.edu/

27.
Finding, organizing & comprehending information are
all practices of digital authorship
comprehension
meaning
interpretation
filtering
storage & retrieval
curation

28.
What is Evernote?
Knowledge management tools are online platforms that help people
find, organize and use digital resources

29.
As you watch, consider:
What competencies are
engaged by making a
screencast?

30.
Screencasting for Reading Comprehension
Screencast-o-Matic
http://screencast-o-matic.com

31.
As you watch, consider:
What competencies are
engaged by making a
screencast?

32.
Screencasting as Literary Analysis
for Prewriting

33.
As you watch, consider:
What competencies are
engaged by making a
screencast?

34.
Screencasting to Demonstrate
Problem-Solving Strategies

35.
Video Commenting Tools Create
Space for Digital Conversation
Flipgrid
http://flipgrid.com

36.
When they create, students build upon
what they have previously learned
through comprehending other media
texts. Digital authors enter into cultural
conversation when they use, share and
build upon the ideas of others.

37.
Creativity is
rooted in
wonder &
exuberance
Creativity, Collaboration & Digital Authorship

38.
Creativity is Combinatorial

39.
Distribution is a Practice of Digital Authorship

40.
SLEEP
How Students Improve their
Creative Competencies as a Digital Author

41.
Cloud-Based Digital Tools Support
Digital Authorship
Writing
KidBlog
Google Docs
Titanpad
Wikispaces
Storybird
Animation
Animoto
Powtoons
Osnap
Moovly
Screencasting
Screencastify
Screencast-o-Matic
Screenr
Video Production
YouTube
WeVideo
Videolicious
Shadow Puppet
Multimedia
Kizoa
Storify
Coding
Scratch
Ready
Infographics
Infogr.am
Easel.ly
http://bit.ly/createtolearn

42.
LOVE HATE
PRINT VISUAL SOUND DIGITAL
Students bring their love-hate relationship with media,
technology and popular culture into the creative process

43.
With Creative Competencies Unleashed Come
Opportunities to Critically Analyze Popular Culture

44.
“How do I get started?”
Managing Student Creativity
“What is our topic?”
“When is it due?”
“How long should it be?”
“Do have to work with a
partner?”
“How do I get an A?”

45.
Creating with digital tools involves a process of messy engagement

46.
As you watch, consider:
What inferences can you
make about how the teacher
structured the learning
experience?

47.
How to Take Care of Your Pet by Grade 1 Students at Russell Byers Charter School

48.
FORMAT
CONTENT
DISTRIBUTION
PROCESS
Teachers Structure Learning Experiences using
a Balance of Creative Freedom & Creative Control

49.
FORMAT
CONTENT
DISTRIBUTION
PROCESS

50.
Too Much Structure
Kills Creativity

51.
FORMAT
CONTENT
DISTRIBUTION
PROCESS

52.
People with creative freedom and autonomy
bring passion to their learning

53.
Classroom instructional practices reflect
the complex & personal love-hate
relationship that educators have with
print, visual, sound and digital media.
Digital authorship is a form of social
power and so students and teachers need
to negotiate the exercise of creative
control.

54.
Digital authorship is a creative and collaborative process that
involves experimentation and risk taking. Students take on
authority when they have a real audience and strategic purpose.
When they create, students build upon what they have previously
learned through comprehending other media texts. Digital authors
enter into cultural conversation when they use, share and build
upon the ideas of others.
Classroom instructional practices reflect their complex & personal
love-hate relationship that educators have with print, visual, sound
and digital media. Digital authorship is a form of social power and so
students and teachers need to negotiate the exercise of creative
control.
REVIEW

55.
How are students “creating to
learn” in your classroom?
How are you supporting the
development of student autonomy
and authority as authors?
What current activities
could be modified so
that students experience
the power of digital
authorship?
What potential impact might digital
authorship have for learners?

56.
Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
Co-Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Literacy
Harrington School of Communication & Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
LEARN MORE
Web: www.mediaeducationlab.com