As an educator, I try to integrate these 12 points into the majority of projects I engage kids with while working at MACSD’s Youth Media Camps. Whether it’s setting up youth blog networks, collaboratively developing stories for film or making comic books each lesson or project poses many opportunities to bring one of these points in.
- Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
- Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
- Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
- Appropriation – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
- Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
- Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
- Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
- Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
- Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
- Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
- Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives and grasping and following alternative norms
- Visualization – the ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends
How might we, as educators integrate these into our own practice? What are some examples that you’ve found in your own practice? How do we cultivate our artists, citizens and workers of the future?
Download the PDF of the 12 points
(‘12 points’ via New Media Literacies Blog)
