Participatory culture

 This week started off with an epiphany if how I viewed literacy. I spent a lot of time looking not only at digital literacy but also how the term has changed and developed different nuances. I was excited and was looking forward to seeing what and how we can move forward and engage our students. Then while reading the news I came across this article. Omer and Omar: How two 4-year-olds were killed and social media denied it - BBC News

Personal beliefs overshadow evidence that is shown, and worse political entities are dissimulating false information to support their own world views. After reading and seeing this I was reminded of the "Flat Eather's" how even in the modern world their message is spreading.

Even the library of Congress keeps a record of references for proponents and detractors.
Journal Articles - The Flat Earth and its Advocates: A List of References - Research Guides at Library of Congress (loc.gov)
I can understand keeping a record of how scientists and researchers went about how they believed in different things and the evidence surrounding their findings. But looking at what David Weiss is doing and the amount of apps and tech that he has on this website.
The Flat Earth Podcast – DITRH
There is plenty of evidence to disprove a flat earth, yet people CHOOSE what they want to believe and will overlook anything that contradicts their viewpoint.
HDEV (nasa.gov)

Enough of the negative, how can we train our students practices of Participatory culture.




I feel that Benjamin Murphy has set us on the right track. Educating our student on bias and that we have them whether good or bad we should run through our critical thinking skills list.




As was brought up in our assigned reading outside interests and phenomenon will occur and addressing and engaging with them ought to be a priority. We can learn and be a part of the interests of our students and use this as an opportunity to align our coursework so they might overlap. Even with no overlap there is still an opportunity. I came across Bloom's digital toxonomy. (1) What is Bloom's Digital Taxonomy? - YouTube


This is the traditional chart. And below is a visual of how we can integrate it into what we have been doing in recent years.

In an open environment we can encourage or focus and redirect students towards furthering what they enjoy and learning along the way. Opportunities to allow the entire class or school to learn in a different manner is always refreshing. And as always, we will be poised to observe, react or intervene if needed.

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  1. Clair BolthouseOctober 30, 2023 at 8:29 AM

    I like how you reflected that our own biases and ideals can shift how we intake information/research! This is definitely a good point and something that everyone, especially students, need to be aware of in participatory culture + technology use.

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