The document discusses ideas from students in an education course about using digital media for creative and critical thinking. One student reflects on how creating media allows students to "author themselves" and express their identity while also connecting with others and challenging beliefs. Another student discusses how some of the best teaching moments come from things not going as planned, and that growth comes from change, challenges and putting yourself out there. A third student talks about how the media can influence perceptions, using the example of how media coverage makes Rio de Janeiro seem more dangerous than some US cities, though the reality may be different. The student advocates being critical of media messages. The last part of the document discusses using a meme as

1. DIGITAL AUTHORSHIP
CRITICAL & CREATIVE
KEY IDEAS FROM STUDENTS
#EDC534

2. Reflecting on Candance Doerr-Stevens:
So much of teaching high school English revolves around the
concept of identity; we study it when we read the classics, when
we write, trying to find our "voice". We talk about societal
expectations and pressures, and how kids so often feel trapped by
what they are "supposed" to be.
As students choose images, songs, words, etc. and arrange them
to highlight a new meaning or representation of truth, they have
the power to "author themselves" (166). This type of production
not only deepens their own understanding, but it helps them
connect with others, and challenge existing beliefs or stereotypes.
Lauren Hopkins

3. Reflecting on Karen Festa:
I find this sentiment about mistakes and risk taking to be
applicable in all areas- not just teaching or taking classes- but it
has a special meaning to me when thinking about best teaching
practices and my professional life.
Some of the best teaching moments I have ever had came out of
something that didn't go the way I had initially intended. We don't
grow from playing it safe and doing what we have always done.
We grow from change, challenge, and putting ourselves out there.
In doing so, we are modeling such important life lessons and life
skills to our students: Try. Get started. Get messy. See what
happens.
Lynn Adams

4. Reflecting on Hobbs Create to Learn:
One reason why children are thought to be more vulnerable to
negative influence from viewing media violence, racism, or sexism is
because they have less direct real-world experience to compare with
the representations provided by mass media. The media influences
everything, not only children but all of us.
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and many times when talking to
people, they ask me if it's dangerous there. They say they want to visit
Rio but they are afraid. This is a perfect example of what the media
does. Rio is no more dangerous than some cities in the U.S. but people
only hear the horrible stories the media shares. We should always be
critical about what we see, hear, and read, take into account different
perspectives, and be opened to seeing the whole picture.
Cynthia Forte

5. Reflecting on Hobbs Create to Learn:
One reason why children are thought to be more vulnerable to
negative influence from viewing media violence, racism, or sexism is
because they have less direct real-world experience to compare with
the representations provided by mass media. The media influences
everything, not only children but all of us.
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and many times when talking to
people, they ask me if it's dangerous there. They say they want to visit
Rio but they are afraid. This is a perfect example of what the media
does. Rio is no more dangerous than some cities in the U.S. but people
only hear the horrible stories the media shares. We should always be
critical about what we see, hear, and read, take into account different
perspectives, and be opened to seeing the whole picture.
Cynthia Forte

6. Making a Podcast with a Meme
as a Mentor Text
https://anchor.fm

8. How does this
meme make you
feel?

9. What do you see
and read in this
meme?

10. What
stereotypes are
activated in this
meme?

11. Accurate or
inaccurate? Math
skills are not
needed to be a
video game maker

12. How might students
and teachers
interpret this meme
differently?

13. GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH
REVEALS A SOURCE:
Who made this meme?

14. What is the
mememaker’s
purpose?

15. Would you share this
meme with your
social network?
Why or why not?

17. In other words, young media producers
often sense intuitively that production of
media content alone does not lead to
communication. Rather, media content
needs an audience, and popular culture
resources can maintain that audience.

18. And finally, interperformativity describes the hybrid
performances in which actions simultaneously speak to
multiple audiences in different timescales and different
spaces.
Observing the interperformativity of actions proves important
to understanding the effects of various attention structures
that occur within sites of engagement where social practices,
perhaps conflicting, intermingle. Such interperformativity
reveals relationship building and identity positioning among
multiple audiences.

19. How do these ideas
relate to this meme?

20. Making a Podcast with a Meme
as a Mentor Text
https://anchor.fm