Information & Transmedia Fluency

Transmedia

Capacidade de acompanhar o fluxo de histórias e informações em

várias modalidades.

Ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple

modalities.

Information & Transmedia Fluency – Defined

To reflectively locate, organize, analyze and apply information to a defined

problem across multiple modalities.

Valuing critical inquiry to engage with the knowledge and ethical practices of a

discipline or chosen profession.

•Information Literacy• Finding and working with information.

•Technology (really Transmedia) Fluency• Using technology to locate and manipulate information.

Challenges

Academics

Common responses from faculty…

•“I lecture on what legitimate sources are and then double check when they use sources that they are legitimate.”

•“I assess students in this course in two ways. One, through their presentation of this material, through oral citations, organization of evidence, type and variety of evidence, reliable and credible sources.”

Not enough time in the semester to incorporate information literacy and core curriculum.

Students don’t “care about” good research and Googling is the easy way out.

No clear definition of what students should be capable of doing and what instructors should be teaching.

Knowmads

•What methods do students use most when searching for answers or material?

•“Google searches (or other search engines) and I am always amazed how many students solely use Wikipedia as a source.“

Technology & Information Transmedia

Fluency

Where do you find information?

PLAY

the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving

Multitaskingthe ability to scan one’s environment and

shift focus as needed to salient details

Judgment the ability to evaluate the reliability and

credibility of different information sources

Creationshaping the flow of media such as video

and blogging

Curationthe ability to store, catalogue and display

information for future use

Confronting the Challenges

of Participatory Culture

How to assess transmedia???

Work in progress

• 4 categories for Information and Technology Literacy lot.

• Using a ranking system from 3 to 0.

• Creating a rubric for assessment.

• All is subject to change.

Badges

Assess-A-Palooza

• October 18, 2013

• For more info see frccslc.wordpress.com/

• Coming soon to a Front Range Community College Campus near you!

“Life is a journey not a destination.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The End

produced by Kae Novak and John HeiselFront Range Community College

sources• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory

Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, by Henry Jenkins

• Research from the Information and Technology Literacy learning outcome team. Front Range Community College.