Weekly Reading 10

How does the project detailed in the video support research process that consistent with the kind of research people encounter in the workplace?

        In a way, this project reminds me of a citizen's journal.  Research had to be done to raise awareness for deforestation.  Nobody is just taking a picture of grasslands and "guessing" that a forest used to be there. First-hand authentic research had to be done.  Either the deforestation was experienced primarily, or careful research was collected to prove the effects of deforestation.  The research is authentic in meaningful, much like the research people encounter in the workplace.  It is community-based.

How does this project support new literacies?

       In the course reading What Wikipedia can teach us about New Media Literacies it was stated that, "Students are responsible for the accuracy of information they provide, and they cannot point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors."  In the project, the presenter is responsible for the accuracy of information and delivery of the message.

       The project notes state,"Leveraging the power of social networking, collaborative online tools, and new pedagogies, the collaboration was chartered with proving a model by which young people could demonstrate powerful 21st century skills by taking meaningful, powerful action. Now with hundreds of thousands of students across the planet, this project is changing lives and defining what learning could be."  In the course reading New Literacies and 21st Century Technologies, it was stated, "Finally, networked communication technologies such as the Internet provide the most powerful capabilities for information and communication we have ever seen, permitting access to people and information in ways and at speeds never before possible."  The connection is obvious between both of these quotations.  New literacies though the Internet have taken this authentic project to a whole new audience so vast.  This project encorporates new literacies within social networking and online tools.