The task for educators is not to drain this sense of open-ended exploration from student-fans but rather to make sure that it is accompanied by the Jiminy Cricket-like voice of critical literacy…
Q: How to Connect Critical Thinking, Research, and Information Literacy? A: Fandom
April 2, 2013 By 14 Comments
Expanding a Book’s Universe
March 19, 2013 By 1 Comment
Together we looked for ‘cheese holes’, or spaces in the story that allow the audience to participate in, contribute further to, and augment the original story using their own intelligence and imagination.
The Shoah Foundation on Media Literacy… and the Importance of Librarians
March 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
“It was purposeful that the IWitness platform was built with media literacy and school standards around digital education right at the center of its architecture.”
Please Take This, Copy It, Use It, Improve It: A Digital Fandom Checklist
January 26, 2013 By 8 Comments
Teaching librarians and language arts educators have, via fandom, a unique opening to reframe netiquette as something other than a subset of character education or online safety.
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