Chapter 6: Analyzing Students' Multimodal Texts: The Product and the Process
1. Why do educators need to be careful about terms like "Digital Native"?
Educators need to be careful not to just stick their students into a generalization.
2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text?
The outcomes are reported to be positive.
3. You may skip the section titled "Context for the Project".
4. What was the goal of the project in terms of product?
The goal was was to track the development of the participants.
5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process?
The goal was to track the multimodal tool and how it was being used by the participants.
6. How were the participants fro the study selected?
They were chosen because this group of participants worked in pairs and fully completed the tasks.
7. Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study?
The students had to create a concept map and then use the map they made to create a multimodal text.
8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts?
They compared the title slide, headings, and overall projects as it comes together as a whole.
9. What differences in Jenny's PowerPoint presentation do you find the most interesting?
I liked how much her presentation changed visually. She started by using several different fonts and colors, as she she got older, she used less of both.
10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper?
When working on the computers there is a longer wait time and it is unpredictable.
11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer?
It was interesting how when they students were experiencing the longer wait times, they had off topic conversations, but they still were able to go right back into the project once it was loaded.
12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study?
That students will develop and use multitasking skills, and that it is not a bad things for students to learn to do this.
13. According the the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction?
The students need to learn time management and how to be able to fully finish the task at hand before moving on.
14. Are you surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study?
No, because students will all need to the basic skills to think through and complete assignments properly.
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