New Media Literacies
High:
- Play
- Apprpriation
- Multitasking
- Visualization
Medium:
- Simulation
- Collective Intelligence
- Judgement
- Networking
Low:
- Distributed Cognition
- Transmedia Navigation
- Negotiation
- Performance
I had difficulties in making this list, it was hard to really isolate which ones I thought were more important than the others. In the end however, I feel like play is the most important for mathematics; problem solving is very important in mathematics but so is experimentation, you could be working on problem and not really know how you are going to go about finding an answer so it is important to have the skills to just play around with it until you find something you can use. Conversely I feel like the least important is Distributed Cognition because while there are some computer programs that can help with further understanding of mathematical concepts the math knowledge needs to be there in the first place; most of what one sees with math programs is a solution and it is up to the mathematician to interpret the that solution.
Annotated Bibliography:
Draper, Roni Jo, and Daniel Siebert. "Different Goals, Similar Practices: Making Sense of the
Mathematics and Literacy Instruction in a Standards-Based Mathematics Classroom." American
Educational Research Journal 41.4 (2004): 927-962.
This article chronicles the collaboration of a Math teacher and a literacy instructor in a standards-based mathematics class. They found that in the math lessons that were taught they each found that it appealed to many of qualities that they deemed important. They also found that the model they have for an ideal classroom was not incorporating the aspects of the others and this was fundamentally important; the literacy instructors were trying to push the wrong forms of literacy and neglecting what is most important in the math discipline and the math teachers are failing to teach their students how to effectively communicate those mathematical concepts. So they worked to create a model that valued the mathematics, the text, and the learner, all centered around the context of the lesson.
Jabberwocky Remix
'Twas aflame, and the fetid corpse
Did char and cinder in the pyre;
All giddy were the children,
And the honorable men rejoiced.
"Beware the Devil, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the ebony bird, and shun
The effortless reward!"
He took his fiery sword in hand:
Long time the wicked foe he sought—
So rested he by the elderberry tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in placid thought he stood,
The Devil, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tranquil wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The fiery blade went swish-slash!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went flying back.
"And hast thou slain the Devil?
Come to my arms, my righteous boy!
O glorious day! Feast! Drink!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas aflame, and the fetid corpse
Did char and cinder in the pyre;
All giddy were the children,
And the honorable men rejoiced.
- The fact that all of our versions are different is quite simply because the words that were used have no concrete meaning. While it is possible many people interpret some words similarly due to the context of the poem, it is impossible to think that with a such a small number of people doing the assignment any two poems would be exactly the same.
- I don't really think my version changed the intended meaning of the poem because even though it is written with made up words I still feel like I know what the other was getting at and what it essentially about. So giving it real words I didn't end up changing the meaning because the choice of words had to make sense within that framework.
- I don't think the meaning really changed all that much but I definitely enjoy the poem more with the imaginary words because then a jabberwocky can be anything I want it to be rather than something more explicit. Likewise any of the other words can be anything I want them to mean.
- I don't really know what experiences affected my reading. I just thought it would be fun to have someone go out and slay the forces of evil, and I guess I made it the stereotypical ultimate evil.
