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Week 8 - Lisa G

I’m responding this week to Heather Zimmerman’s “Facilitating Place-Based Learning in Outdoor Informal Environments with Mobile Computers.” I’m vacillating between whether I find this article incredibly smart because it provides a very simple framework in which to make mobile-based learning more purposeful or meaningful (through a direct connection to place), or, if I find it uncompelling because the parallels they draw between placed-based education… Read more Week 8 - Lisa G

Week 6 Discussion

I want to comment on the Curwood, Magnifico, Lammers piece, “Writing in the Wild: Writers’ motivation in fan-based affinity spaces.” Overall, I greatly enjoyed this piece, especially in relation to my user interviewing and testing. My child gave me the feedback that she wanted the writing kit to shift in perspective. Instead of being her journal, she wanted… Read more Week 6 Discussion

Week 5 Discussion

I’m a little late on my week 5 post, but I wanted to respond to the portion of the Granic article where growth mindset is referenced. I pasted the portion below my comment. I wondered about these different domains of cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social development that they were observing regarding playing video games. It seemed like some… Read more Week 5 Discussion

Goochee Week 4 Discussion Post

Wowzers, week four’s readings have been the creepiest so far, by far. I am responding to the child near-future-robot scenario article. I found the postulation that children will form moral and social relationships with their toys to be completely ridiculous, until they invoked the first example of the Tamagotchi, which I did love and interact with in… Read more Goochee Week 4 Discussion Post

Lisa Goochee Redesign Assignment 1: My Password Journal

My Password Journal Link I chose to redesign My Password Journal by Mattel. This product offers a small note pad encased within a pink and purple plastic electronic case that locks upon closure. It’s aimed at girls ages 6-12. It can only be opened by the owner’s voice and chosen password. The journal will record the… Read more Lisa Goochee Redesign Assignment 1: My Password Journal

Tech-Enhanced Storybooks - Lisa Goochee

Benefits and Pitfalls of Multimedia and Interactive Features in Technology-Enhanced Storybooks: A Meta-Analysis It was interesting to read the piece by Takacs, Stuart, and Bus on the interactive media in technologically enhanced story books. The differences between multimedia features of text, storybook interactivity, or just audio were interesting regarding cognitive load and memory or comprehension of text. It makes a… Read more Tech-Enhanced Storybooks - Lisa Goochee

Parasocial Activity: Lisa G's Character

Lisa Simpson seems particularly poignant as a character that informed my identity in my early life. Like the Simpsons, my family had three children, an older brother, middle child named Lisa, and a younger baby sister. I related to Lisa because we had the same names and were both full of anxiety directed towards our family… Read more Parasocial Activity: Lisa G's Character

Lisa G's Week 1 Readings

I loved the insights from the readings this week. I gave more attention to New Media Literacies and Rogoff’s 2007 piece, as well as the AAP brief.  I enjoyed the interplay between the critical developmentally appropriate lens of Alper and what I felt were the somewhat overbearing and fear-mongering AAP recommendations, including  “Examine your own media use… Read more Lisa G's Week 1 Readings

Lisa G's Toy

If anyone wants a friendship bracelet this quarter, I’m still in business. -Lisa G