1. Why do educators need to be careful about terms like "Digital Native"?
It leads to an understanding of a whole generation as a homeogeneous group.
2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text?
It can enhance the learning process. This recognition of the importance of developing young people's creative and critical productions with technology signals the need for closer attention by researchers and educators to the actual products that young people create in their learning activities.
3.You may skip the section " Context for the Project".
4. What was the goal of the project in terms of product?
It is to track the development of the participants multimodal literacies over a two-yeah period by comparing two multimodal products created at the beginning and end of the period.
5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process?
It is to gain a deeper understanding of how multimodal texts were created.
6. How were the participants for the study selected?
They were able to track 115 students studying the subject Study of Society and the Environment from years 8 and 10 to years 10 and 12.
7. Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study?
They have to use their minds to figure it out so its a learning experience.
8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts?
They did it by each year.
9. What differences in Jenny's Powerpoint presentation do you find the most interesting?
Each slide on the powerpoint is way more detailed then the other.
10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper?
When you work together on the computer you have to know all the buttons on the computer and I think it is alot easier than doing it on pencil and paper.
11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer?
They were concentrating on the task on the computer very hard. They wanted to learn how to do it and do it the right way.
12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study?
Teachers need to give them more of a time span to complete this because obviously they are not finishing it in the time span they have now.
13. According to the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction?
Multimodal text production requires students to have sufficient time to complex the tasks.
14. Are you suprised by the conclusions drawn in this study?
Yes, I am surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study. I would think that this study would work out or be this successful because everyone does things different ways with mulitmodal texting.
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