Due by end-of-day Monday 9/14

READ: Tisha Lewis Ellison and Marva Solomon, “Digital Storytelling and the Digital Divide”

https://ncte.org/blog/2019/10/digital-storytelling-digital-divide/

 READ: There are several student digital literacy narratives on this site (scroll down a bit once you get there). They’re responding to a specific reading that we’re not looking at (but which is really interesting because it talks about pencils as technology!), but they’re good examples of a DLN. Pick two to read – be sure to take notes because you’ll be referring to them in your post.

https://libguides.reynolds.edu/c.php?g=252985&p=1686948

WRITE: (Discussion Post) So far in this unit, we have read (and heard) two examples from the genre of the “education narrative” and three from the genre of “digital literacy narrative (DLN).”  Your first essay assignment in this class will be to write in the DLN genre yourself. So in this discussion, I’d like us to have a conversation about what the features of this genre are. Please discuss some of the following:

• What, from what you’ve seen so far, are the “ingredients” (also known as “conventions”) of an education narrative in general and a digital literacy narrative in particular? Here is where you need to quote from each of the two digital literacy narratives you read on the libguides.reynolds.edu site – use them as examples of genre conventions.
• What do you think might be a place to get started with your own DLN?
• What are your questions or concerns about writing a DLN of your own?
• If you like, you can also feel free to share an educational experience you had and ask for feedback from your colleagues (and me) to see if we think that might be a solid place to begin writing.

Title it “DLN – your name” and use the Category Unit 1. Tag is “DLN”

Unless you are one of the very first people to respond to this prompt, I will expect that you are joining the conversation. By this I mean you’re not just running into the room and shouting out your own thoughts, but you’re listening to what others have said (aka reading others’ posts) and responding to those. This is meant to be a conversation, not a speech! Everyone should write at least 250 words — whether only in one post or spread out in various comments.