"NetSmart" and Concept Mapping

Learning Targets:

• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences drawn from the text. (CCSS 11.RIT.1)
Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development throughout the text, including how they interact and build on one another; provide objective summary of text. (CCSS - 11.RIT.2)

NetSmart: How to Thrive Online

Activities:

Read the introduction to author Howard Rheingold's NetSmart:  How to Thrive Online.  Take notes as you read begin to sketch out a concept map of the main ideas and supporting evidence/explanations of what you are reading.

Once finished use one of the tools on the link below (or one of your choosing) to complete a concept map of your reading.  As you read, be mindful and consider the following:

• What does "literate" mean to you?
• What does it mean to be mindful?
• The "new literacies" identified by Rheingold.
• Your technology use and the behavior of yourself, and others, online.
• Is Google and the internet making us "stupid"?

Here are some good resources and tools for creating online concept maps from the Office of Instructional Consulting at Indiana University.

While a bit more complex, here is an example of a concept map from Howard Rheingold on "Mindful Infotention". When you view it, pay attention to and click on the small icons beneath each bubble/box - it will show you a drop down list of additional terms.

Your concept map is due on Friday, April 13, 2012 and must include at least:

• The main ideas from your reading
• The five new literacies in the digital age discussed
• Supporting evidence of each of the literacies - key terms, sample tools, etc.  
• Creativity.  The above will get you the bare minimum.  Be creative and add and connect concepts to real examples in your world/present-day life.

To submit your assignment:

• Look for an email via the Global Studies Google Group.
• Respond to that thread with the link to your online concept map AND download your map, saved as a .jpeg and attach the .jpeg to the response email.

A Flat World and Our Place In It

Today's Learning Targets:

• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of wha the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. (CCR 11.RIT.1)
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. (CCR 11.RIT.4)
• Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text. (CCR 11.RIT.6)

Today's Activities:

READ & RESEARCH

• Be sure you've walked the wiki and completed yesterday's assignment, bookmarking the pages to your Diigo account.

• Always use the FCP11-3, flatclassroom and mcahs tags.  Depending upon your topic as you continue to research, also use the proper tags for your topic according to the project Tagging Standards.

• Locate your team's Topic Overview Wiki and identify the page range of The World is Flat that pertains to your topic.  Read your assigned section of the book.

• As you read, think about your subtopic (A, B, C, D, etc.) and how this flattener has impacted your subtopic.  Record notes and important points in Evernote.

CONNECT

• Complete the Handshake Discussion post with your Topic Team's Expert Advisors.
• Before posting any discussions on the wiki, please review these Online Discussion Board Netiquette Guidelines.
• Go to your Team Wiki (Where you actually edit and place your work).
• Click on the "Discussion" tab.
• Click on the post titled "EA-Handshake" and post a response in that discussion thread.
• If you go to Group/Topic 2, this is what it looks like as you click through:
• Do not post in a separate thread.  Moving forward, know that posts that are titled beginning EA are especially important as they will contain feedback from your Expert Advisors.

• Once you have completed, screenshot (take a picture of your post), log into your MCA email and share it via Google Docs with Ms. Nestico.
• Due before class on Thursday.