Renee Hobbs offers a keynote address to the European League of Middle-Level Educators (ELMLE) in Warsaw on January 31, 2015. Learn more: http://mediaeducationlab.com/european-league-middle-level-educators-elmle

1. How Teacher
Motivations Shape
Digital Learning
Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
TWITTER: @reneehobbs

2. www.mediaeducationlab.com

5. TECHINDUSTRYACTIVIST
GOVERNMENTCIVILSOCIETYORGS
EDUCATIONCREATIVEARTS
expanding variety of stakeholders

6. How do learners develop digital literacy competencies?
What knowledge and skills do they need?
No Such Thing as
“Digital Natives”

7. SKILLS & ABILITIES
➢ Computer Use and Knowledge
➢ ICT Skills & Digital Skills
LITERACY
➢ Online Reading & New Literacies
➢ Media Production / Youth Media
➢ Coding
TEACHING WITH
➢ Technology Integration
➢ Digital Learning
➢ Blended Learning
➢ Connected Learning
TEACHING ABOUT
➢ Information Literacy
➢ Media Literacy
➢ Internet Safety & Digital Citizenship
expanding variety of approaches and terms

8. ACCESS
expanding the concept of literacy

9. expanding the concept of text

10. www.mediaeducationlab.com
Exploring the instructional practices of digital and media literacy in Grades 7 - 12

12. Mind Over Media: Analyzing
Contemporary Propaganda

13. Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
July 26 –31, 2015
Providence RI USA

14. NEW RELATIONSHIPS
NEW TEXTS
NEW TOOLS

15. Why professional development for
digital learning often fails

16. LOVE HATE
PRINT VISUAL SOUND DIGITAL
Educators’ attitudes about media, technology and
popular culture shape their work with learners

17. expanding the concept of literacy
open access
multitasking
transmediation
curation
play
data ownership
identity
representation
privacy
addiction

18. How do Teachers Make Sense of
Digital Media and Learning?
Research on
attitudes of K-12
teachers in the
United States
and Germany
Exploring the
relationship
between teacher
attitudes and
likelihood to use
digital media
and technology
in the classroom

19. Empowerment

20. Protection

21. Protection

22. Empowerment

23. Motivations
for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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24. www.powerfulvoicesforkids.com

28. TECHIE
You’re the educator who loves tablets, apps, programs, plug-
ins, widgets, websites, and other types of educational
technology because you have a passionate curiosity about
new tools. You see much potential to engage students with
the technology tools they love and use in their everyday lives.
TRENDSETTER
You’re tuned into pop culture and curious about kid culture.
Maybe your own most-loved popular culture isn’t too far
removed from that of your students. You are inquisitive about
the trends and hot topics that make up a crucial component
of the fabric of your students’ everyday lives. You want school
culture to meet kids where they live with the popular culture
they know and love.

29. DEMYSTIFIER
As a teacher, you “pull back the curtain” to help students see
how various forms of information and knowledge are
constructed. You emphasize the practice of critical thinking,
helping students ask good “how” and “why” questions.
WATCHDOG
You are a natural critical thinker, aware of how economic
systems and institutions influence our everyday lives,
particularly through the media we use. You want your
students and your peers to be more mindful of the ways that
things are bought and sold. Who owns and controls the
media content that we see, hear, read, and play with? You feel
responsible for giving your students a “wake-up call” about
the economic and institutional inner-workings of the
technology and the world that surrounds them.

30. ACTIVIST
As an educator, you want to make society more just and
equitable by promoting democratic participation. You use
media in the classroom as a catalyst for students to
understand how they might have a voice in improving the
quality of life in their communities and in the world.
TASTEMAKER
You want to broaden your students’ horizons. You want them
to have exposure to the kinds of media experiences that put
them in touch with historical, aesthetic, and critical
appreciation. You know that a key component of students’
future interactions will require them to draw from a variety
of cultural sources both classical and popular.

31. ALT
You are an inventive, perhaps “DIY,” teacher. You’re always
ready to challenge students with alternative ways of finding,
using, thinking about, and making media in the classroom.
Whether you use open source programs on school computers,
encourage students to start alternative clubs or magazines, or
introduce students to media that’s “off the beaten path” of
mainstream and mass media, you are likely a key proponent
of broadening students’ understanding of the many different
ways that people can communicate in the world.
MOTIVATOR
You are an inspiration, a catalyst for your students’ creative
energy. Students who have never felt comfortable speaking
up in class, participating in activities, or contributing to class
dialogue find it easier to speak their mind when you’re
leading the classroom. You see your role as helping students
be the best they can be.

32. SPIRIT GUIDE
You are a listener. You have a dedication to the social and
emotional well-being of your students, and want to make
sure that everything you do in the classroom connects to their
immediate needs to understand themselves and their lives.
Students likely find you trustworthy, and may even confide in
you in ways that they do not for other teachers. You know
media is just one facet of student life, and you want to engage
with it to help them through the highs and lows of life in all of
its challenges and opportunities.
PROFESSIONAL
You have high standards for your students’ work, and you may
be seen as the go-to media professional in your school. You
know how to push your students to understand and emulate
the professional conventions that is important to being taken
seriously in the world of media creation. To help students
enter the real world of media creation, you bring other
authors, professionals, and media-makers into your classroom
to enrich the learning experience.

33. PROFESSOR
You balance your interest in media and technology with a
clear connection to academic standards. You want to be sure
that media and technology are not used in the classroom for
their own sake, but to gain content knowledge. Multimedia
presentations, engaging websites, and educational technology
serve the purpose of helping you deliver the core content and
skills students need to master.
TEACHER 2.0
You understand that participation in digital media and
learning cultures requires flexibility to new formats, modes of
expression, and participation in and out of school. You use
online or interactive versions of classic literature to explore
meaning behind texts. Teacher 2.0 teachers always trying new
things in the classroom and finding new ways to connect
learning to children’s culture.

34. Pair-Share
What’s Your Digital Learning
Horoscope?

37. Making inferences about teacher motivation
using digital evidence

39. Motivations
for Using Media & Technology
in Education

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for Using Media & Technology
in Education

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for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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for Using Media & Technology
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for Using Media & Technology
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for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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57. Find, comprehend and
interpret content
Gain knowledge
and information
Examine the quality of
educational resources
Share ideas through
dialogue & discussion
Create, build or
make something
Reflect on expected and
unanticipated consequences
Develop and implement a
community action project
Critically analyze how
messages are constructed

58. Motivations
for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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59. Why reflection is a transformative practice

60. Self-reflection on one’s own motivations
may increase focus and creativity

61. Collaborative reflection may promote respect
and cultivate shared values

62. Respect for teacher motivations may expand the
diversity and range of instructional practices and tools

63. Sensitivity to teacher motivations may contribute to the
design of PD with greater impact

64. Motivations
for Using Media & Technology
in Education
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66. People with creative freedom and
professional autonomy bring passion and
integrity to their work and life

67. People with creative freedom and
professional autonomy bring passion and
integrity to their work and life
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68. How Teacher
Motivations Shape
Digital Learning
Renee Hobbs
Harrington School of Communication and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
TWITTER: @reneehobbs