Monkey Bars and New Media Assessment: You Can't Move Forward without Letting Go
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Conference Strand
Ethics in Information
Target Audience
Other
Location
Room 217
Relevance
N/A
Proposal
In this session, presenters will use a "triangulation" model to discuss the implications of new media as they relate to writing pedagogy and assessment from three different but related perspectives. Speaker 1 will first explore issues of online identity and then offer her perspective on the recently instituted Higher Education Act's requirement that universities engaging in distance education find ways to verify the identity of their students. Speaker 2 will discuss the expanded range of new media with respect to writing instruction and assessment, and suggest ways in which the assessment mechanisms of the past can be adapted to meet the challenges presented by multi-modal composition. Speaker 3 will share her experiences in implementing a university-wide ePortfolio program with the tripartite goals of programmatic improvement, assessment of both general education and distributed competencies, and reflection by the students on their education and progress.
Presentation Description
Taking steps that lead away from traditional print texts and toward electronic and digital literacy can be dismaying, exhilarating, or sometimes both at the same time. As the title suggests, it is difficult to make that transition without letting go of some the assumptions and preconceptions that informed our work when we were all “on the same [printed] page.” This panel looks at how genuine learning and academic integrity can be enhanced when digital information literacy replaces traditional print literacy as a telos of pedagogy, course design, and institutional practice.
Keywords
Information literacy, New media assessment, Electronic literacy, Digital literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Ramirez, Barbara and Ring, Gail, "Monkey Bars and New Media Assessment: You Can't Move Forward without Letting Go" (2009). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 29.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2009/2009/29
Monkey Bars and New Media Assessment: You Can't Move Forward without Letting Go
Room 217
In this session, presenters will use a "triangulation" model to discuss the implications of new media as they relate to writing pedagogy and assessment from three different but related perspectives. Speaker 1 will first explore issues of online identity and then offer her perspective on the recently instituted Higher Education Act's requirement that universities engaging in distance education find ways to verify the identity of their students. Speaker 2 will discuss the expanded range of new media with respect to writing instruction and assessment, and suggest ways in which the assessment mechanisms of the past can be adapted to meet the challenges presented by multi-modal composition. Speaker 3 will share her experiences in implementing a university-wide ePortfolio program with the tripartite goals of programmatic improvement, assessment of both general education and distributed competencies, and reflection by the students on their education and progress.
