1. Why do educators need to be careful about terms like "Digital Native"? A majority of the students may possess a core set of technology-based skills but they are in a very diverse range of skills and skill levels that exist across the student population
2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text? Positive and enhanced outcomes have been reported
3. You may skip the section titled "Context for the Project".
4. What was the goal of the project in terms of product? It was to track the development of the participants' multimodal literacies over a two-year period by comparing tow multimodal products created at the beginning and end of the period.
5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process? It was to gain a deeper understanding oh how multimodal texts were created, especially when the students were working in pairs at the computer.
6. How were the participants from the study selected? They were students who had worked collaboratively in pairs, who fully completed the task, and the video recordings were intact and complete.
7. Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study? They were to complete a concept map to organize information acquired from web sources and a decision making matrix to facilitate transformation of the ideas in their concept map ino a preferred solution, as required for their multimodal text. Then following these preparatory stages, the students could create a multimodal text using a word processor, a presentation tool, or a web publishing program.
8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts? They evaluated the title slide/page, the headings, and the knowledge representation of each multimodal text in terms of design, content, and cohesion.
9. What differences in Jenny's PowerPoint presentation do you find the most interesting? I find that her color scheme changes is very interesting especially for a kid because I would of thought that a student old would use the same colors as 2 years ago.
10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper? 1. While typed words may appear immediately on scree, there is ofter a considerable wait time between the keying in of the instruction and a response from the computer. 2. The length of the wait time in unpredictable and may be several minutes. 3. The result the computer provides to an instruction is often unexpected, as in the selection and the ordering of items located in a web search.
11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer? The students would start talking while waiting on the computer and they would talk about the task or something unrelated but the computer would eventually signal by the completion of a response to a command which would bring them back to the task at hand,
12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study? That they need to teach traditional skills, time management skills and maintaining a task.
13. According the the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction? Students need to learn more traditional skills, time management skills and maintaining a task.
14. Are you surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study? Yes
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