Digital literacy skills are important for teachers to consider across many teaching contexts. We read about how critical ignoring should be part of what we are teaching to help students manage the information overload of today’s digital landscape.
Later, we read a classroom study of how reverse engineering can help students get more out of their first robotics experiences. The benefits over “forward” designs reached their collaborative skills and what they learned.
- First Segment – 02:07 – Critical Ignoring as Digital Literacy
- Second Segment – 22:59 – Reverse Engineering in Elementary Robotics
Primary Citations
- Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2022). Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721422112157
- Full Paper Copy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09637214221121570
- Zhong, B., Kang, S., & Zhan, Z. (2021). Investigating the effect of reverse engineering pedagogy in K‐12 robotics education. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 29(5), 1097-1111. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22363
Supplemental Citations
- Media Bias Chart (Ad Fontes Media)
- Media Bias Fact Check.com
- 046 Nature of Science & Malleable Self-Concept (Two Pint PLC)
- 064 Evaluative Mindsets & Sociopolitical Consciousness (Two Pint PLC)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman, 2013)
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations)
- Associations Between Online Instruction in Lateral Reading Strategies and Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Among College Students (Brodsky, 2021)
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- Scratch Programming Platform
- Arduino Hardware
Featured Beverage
We drink Frosted Frog Christmas Ale, a brown spiced ale from the Hoppin’ Frog Brewery in Akron, OH.