“There’s an App for That!”
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Which Social Media Fits You?
“We wanted to create an interactive and fun way to connect people to their social media – and show how it can cause some introspective reflection,” remarked Taylor Nelson, one of the designers of the project. “It was a short, simple, and sweet way to interact with people on campus. And the quiz took less…
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You are what you tweet
“We did this to make people realize that what they tweet is public information and can be seen by anyone.” First-year students Nick Simonetti and Jeremy Swick created a project called You Are What You Tweet for their freshman seminar course in digital literacy at Queens University of Charlotte. The premise was simple: ask students to wear one of…
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Tally your Tweets
It’s a simple question: “How many times did you tweet today?” Yet, some are hesitant to answer. Why would you want to publicly display your private digital life? In our last session of our digital literacy seminar, each student was supposed to find a way for our course content to intersect with other students at Queens.…
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Egging our campus
Under the watchful eye of the Evans clock tower at Queens University of Charlotte, students awoke Wednesday to find that the residential quad on campus had been egged. On Monday, students in the digital literacy exploration seminar stuffed over 1,000 easter eggs with digital literacy tips and candy. This morning, they egged the campus by staging a…
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Digital Literacy Brainstorm
How would you know if you were digitally literate? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our fourth weekly inquiry, students and invited guests will investigate the markers of digital literacy in a group brainstorm. We’ll start with the white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action written by Renee…
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Developing digital skills
What are the skills necessary to be digitally literate? In her white paper Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, Renee Hobbs suggests that digital and media literacy is a five-part effort including the abilities to access, analyze, create, reflect, and act. In his article Attention and other 21st century literacies, Howard Rheingold names…
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Digital Citizens
What does it mean to be a citizen in a digital world? Who are the best examples of this type of citizenship? In our exploration seminar at Queens University of Charlotte, our central question surrounds digital literacies. For our second weekly inquiry, students will investigate what it means to be a digital citizen. To do…
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An Exploration in Digital Literacy
I’m embarking on a journey through an untested classroom. At Queens University of Charlotte, the university is investing in a prototype for faculty-student interaction through seminars that explore a specific question or inquiry. I’ve agreed to be part of the pilot project taking place this spring. Fifteen brave students and I will examine the landscape of digital literacy and…
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