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Revision as of 10:17, 26 January 2020
1) When was your technology/media tool invented?
The concept of Sesame Street was first conceived of in 1966. After collaboration and workshopping, it finally aired for the first time on November 10, 1969. [(Source)]
2) When was it first used in education (and how)?
“Sesame Street” was developed with education in mind during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s. Looking to create a television show that provided “a pre-school education model that could reach a great number of inner-city children” (Source)
3) How did the technology/media tool (re)reshape educational practice and teaching/learning – or transform literacy learning and/or social-institutional-classroom organization?
→ (Changing roles in classrooms, changing positions of authority, power relations, modes of exclusion or inclusion, ideology and modes of social action or creativity? (Source)
→ Taught cultural literacy and social literacy alongside reading and writing (letters, numbers, etc). Social norms and cues - politeness**** → Allowed inner city children to see themselves depicted on the scene in a neighbourhood disconnected to time, super diverse, similar to their own neighbourhoods → Acknowledged the stresses of children and their needs to be acknowledged and listened to in a healthy manner ( challenging the Freire method)
A more palatable form of delivery that can be delivered before higher thinking is even capable - taught a lesson before you recognize what it is. Internalizing a value at a young age .
→Consistency: the ideas stay the same, but the components and that actors hav changed. Progressive and experimental in how it utilized pedagogy, but technocratic in its u ilateral approach approach to values and what should be taught. Revolutionary in its approach to societal issues that
4) If possible, try to connect your analysis to the literacy paradigms (de Castell & Luke, or Multiliteracies). →teaching without structure, or in a more palatable structure: viewing your education and hearing your concerns aired, vesus the technocratic ideal of standardized education being prescribed.
→ Used a variety of entertainment and media forms to call back on the progressive method and the pre-literate method (song, dance, rhythm, movement, oral traditions)
