Educational Leadership

Media literacy skills are knowing what is the correct way to use technology; getting the correct facts and not breaking the law doing so. Traditional literacy skills are knowing how to use and find information in books, magazines, journals and other hard copy information.

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Choosing appropriate search engines, following relevant links, and judging the validity of information are difficult challenges, not only for students of all ages, but also for most adults, including many teachers. 


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This is very true, because there are many uneducated people trying to find things wrong with correct information and trusting. the bias webpages. Wikipedia has so many schools not allow students to use it because they do not understand how they are organised agenst vandalism and invalid information. Many people trust websites that's soul purpose is to make you buy, believe, or do something to help them or fallow their beliefs. This is because they end in .org or .gov which they were probably taught meant they were true. This is the case the facts are usually correct just not unbiased

This video is very cute and gets the point across that students get bored with a white board and chalk. 

Developmental psychology

1. Start with the main page. Does it have any cleanup banners that have been placed there to indicate problems with the article? (A complete list is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/
   Cleanup.)

Any one of the following cleanup banners means the article is an unreliable source:

This article or section has multiple issues.	yes
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.	yes
The neutrality of this article is disputed.	no
The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.	no
This needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling.	yes
This may contain material not appropriate for an encyclopedia.	no
This article only describes one highly specialized aspect of its associated subject.	yes
This article requires authentication or verification by an expert.	yes
This article or section needs to be updated.	yes
This article may not provide balanced geographical coverage on a region.	no
This is missing citations or needs footnotes.	yes
This article does not cite any references or sources.	no

2. Read through the article and see if it meets the following requirements:

Is it written in a clear and organized way?	yes
Is the tone neutral (not taking sides)?	yes
Are all important facts referenced (you're told where they come from)?	no
Does the information provided seem complete or does it look like there are gaps (or just one side of the story)?	yes

3. Scroll down to the article's References and open them in new windows or tabs. Do they seem like reliable sources? (For help in determining the general reliability of a source, check out the Knowing What's What and What's Note: The 5 Ws (and 1 "H") of Cyberspace handout.)
   
   Reliable references: Dr. John Worthingtonhttp://pages.uoregon.edu/moursund/Math/developmental_theory.htm
   http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-3/role.html  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v358/n6389/abs/358749a0.html http://pmj.bmj.com/content/79/934/438.abstract
3. Possibly unreliable references:
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027798000584 
   
   Definitely unreliable references:
   The ones who don't link a website.
   
    
4. Click on the Discussion tab. How is the article rated on the Rating Scale(Stub, Start, C, B, GA, A, FA)? What issues around the article are being discussed? Do any of them make you doubt the article's reliability?

Start-Class  Article is developing and needs more information. No just lacking information about things. 

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5. Based on the above questions, give the article an overall ranking ofReliable, Partially Reliable or Unreliable.

• You may use a Reliable article as a source (but remember that even if a Wikipedia article is reliable, it should never be your only source on a topic!)
• You may use a Partially Reliable article as a starting point for your research, and may use some
  of its references as sources, but do not us it as a source.
• You should not use an Unreliable article as a source or a starting point. Research the same topic in a different encyclopedia.

How did you rank this article (Reliable, Partially Reliable or Unreliable)? Give at least three reasons to support
your answer.

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Partially Reliable. 

1. It was missing a good bit of important information. 2. It is a very good starting point for research for a paper because it gives you a lot of ideas for topics to go off of. 3. It was not sourced properly website wise and that means you have to search for these things and double check those facts.  

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Wikipedia

a. What is Wikipedia? 
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is world wide and fact checked by a volunteer staff.

b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”? 
It is creditable because of the staff that goes there every edit and pulls out vandalism and incorrect information. 

c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? 
A volunteer staff that has been voted into the community. 

d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? 
Mr. Sanger left Wikipedia, believing that it should give more authority to experts.

e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? 
It would be highlighted as a change and taken out as soon at it was caught. 

f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? 
 The encyclopedia is among the top 10 most-visited sites on the Internet around the world, aided by the fact that Google searches typically list Wikipedia entries prominently on results pages.
 
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? 
I think it is successful because of the people who car about it working on it everyday to keep it correct and in the correct hands. 

h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising? 
 Wikipedia does not accept advertising and relies instead on donations from visitors and other, indirect commercial efforts because of lack of funds being a non profit organization. 

i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It quickly exposed examples of self-interested editing by prominent businesses and governments around the world.

Four ways to use Wikipedia (Never cite it!)
1. Background information.
2.Links.
3.Key Words.
4.References. 

I don't personally use Wikipedia because I was always told not to and a lot of my work so far this semester has been completely opinion or book paced. I think I could if it was a research project though. 

Teachers can use it to keep up on the world and in class as far as research papers and teaching children to use the internet for academics not just social media. 

'What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the new Media Literacies' thoughts

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 While the MacArthur researchers take serious youth innovations through media and respect the meaningful role that these experiences play in young people’s social and cultural lives, they also value what teachers, parents, librarians, youth workers, and others bring to the conversation. We want to help these adults respond to the changing circumstances young people face in a period of prolonged and profound media change.

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 I feel like youth does not respect the role of those adults to the point of technology because we are growing up with their changes and they are not. We spend most of our time with technology in front of our faces and adults spend their time telling us to get off of it or to put it away. To help them understand technology would be helpful to them and the youth because it is becoming a form of cultural differences in the same home. Youth lives with it and adults live to avoid it and not understand it. 

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What new media literacies are associated with Wikipedia?
They have a chat section to discus the accuracy and importnats of each post. How does Wikipedia promote the development of 21st century skills?It is online and not in a book, in today's world books are online and we understand them better along with them being convenient. 
Should teacher let students use Wikipedia for research purposes? Why or Why not?Yes because it is proven to be accurate as a written encyclopedic.

How a Ragtag band created Wikipedia Video Thoughts

Three Things that I learned.
They fight to have a Neutral Point of View
Anti Vandalism Community
18% edits anonymous. 

Two things I agreed with
Delete it page with votes to keep and delete new pages or out of date pages.
Teachers are starting to use Wikipedia because they are realizing it has facts behind it and people keeping it professional.



One Thing I disagree with. 
They have volunteer workers and one paid employee. I disagree with this because they should pay the select few people who make it their life and are voted on these boards just a small amount to keep them around for years.

My position on learning styles

I am a visual learner. After watching the video I see his side that they don't mean what people have assumed they mean. I think that there are different learning styles when it comes to studying and maybe gaining some information but not all. Good analogies help everyone because they get threw as something that someone would remember because it clicked for them and that is how. Some people need to study things in different colors, reading it over and over, writing it over and over, with pictures attached, or music playing it depends on how they make it stick in their memory not necessarily how they have to learn it just how they have to make it stick. Meaning they may be useful in a classroom but they are more useful alone or in a one on one setting.

Comic Releifhttp://blog.wordle.net/2008/10/wordle-lesson-plan.html

visual learning style

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"Another domain Endres noted was visual learners during exams (Endres, n.d.). During an exam, visual learners prefer to recall the pictures that they studied when preparing for the exam (Endres, n.d.). For example, visual students can recall the map of the Midwest to remember the states that are located in this area. In addition, Endres discusses drawing as a tool for visual students to use to remember information during exams (Endres, n.d.). An example of this is when the visual students have a question about plant parts. They can draw a plant for the purpose. Finally, she talks about the strategies of the practice to shift the pictures to words (Endres, n.d.). For example, the visual learners can remember some animal names; they can imagine these animals and they shift what they imagine to words."

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This is a hundred and ten percent true. Visual learners need colors and pictures to learn, I also have a huge problem memorizing because I am a visual learner. Last semester I was pre-med and being a visual learner so it was very hard for me to learn from plain flash cards. I had to color code them by where on the body the part was, what part of speech, and part of the test it would be on. I also had to draw pictures on them and draw pictures on the test just to pass the class with a C.

This Video also expands on the research done.

Texting and language.

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David Crystal, the author of “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8,” told me in an e-mail message that “there’s nothing in texting to suggest spelling reform,” noting that texting relies heavily on abbreviations, which he sees as creative stylings, not systematic improvements. 

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 I agree with this nothing says that text messaging always relies on heavy abbreviations. In my personal experience few if any of my friends use text messaging lingo when talking to me threw text messaging. We hardly even abbreviate and we do it is usually a word commonly abbreviated. However I don’t agree with his opinion that text lingo is creative styling, I see it as more of laziness or to save space and not have to make the message more than one page long; but he is correct in my opinion it is defiantly not systematic improvements because it is not proper English and it is not accepted in things like résumés, essays or any legal documentation. 

I believe that this video shows that even though their are only a few changes out of a lot of words that it does make a difference and is effecting students school work if they are in the habit of using "online lingo" daily. 

I got this information from the Nytimes. 

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