Connecting out-of-school learning to home: Digital postcards from summer camp

Zimmerman, Heather Toomey; Gamrat, Christopher; Hooper, Simon

doi:10.1007/s11528-014-0739-4

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“…Photography has been used across disciplines and topics in the classroom. For example, students were asked to take photographs to represent or document social justice (DeJean, 2008), human impact on the environment (Patrick & Patrick, 2010), the purposes of school (Marquez-Zenkov & Harmon, 2007), and nutrition (Land, Smith, Park, Beabout, & Kim, 2009). Students were also asked to use photographs in assignments challenging them to pretend that they were textbook designers explaining Newton's third law (Eshach, 2010).…”

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Faking sociology?: A content analysis of an introductory sociology student photography assignment

Medley-Rath

2019

T&LI

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I analyzed student submissions from a photography-based assignment in introductory sociology. In this exploratory study, I discuss the patterns found in student submissions to uncover what sociological concepts students observed in their everyday lives. My primary research question, therefore, was what do introductory sociology students see when they are given few guidelines as to what they "should" see? The intent of this research was to focus on what concepts students identified, not my interpretation of students' meaning or to gauge the effectiveness of the assignment on learning outcomes. The goal of this research was to describe what students are actually identifying as sociological and how this does or does not reflect the goals of the assignment or the course. In turn, the results of systematically analyzing student submissions can inform future iterations of the assignment and my overall teaching strategies in introductory sociology. Results indicate that students used a range of concepts, yet tended to focus on broad (e.g., norms) rather than specific (e.g., folkways) or abstract (e.g., sociological imagination) concepts. By analyzing student submissions across semesters, I can illuminate how successful students were at applying sociological knowledge to their everyday lives. Moreover, this analysis demonstrates that students were superficially meeting the standards of the assignment, but it remains unclear whether students were demonstrating a grasp of sociological knowledge or simply relying on preexisting commonsense knowledge to complete the assignment.

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Section: Pedagogy Using Photographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Faking sociology?: A content analysis of an introductory sociology student photography assignment

Medley-Rath

2019

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Intergenerational Play Around Immersive Video Games

Siyahhan

2021

Creativity in the Twenty First Century

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Integrating Mobile Computers into Informal Science Education

Zimmerman

Land

2017

Preparing Informal Science Educators

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Green renewable energy is now the focus of global attention and a key opportunity for non-oil-exporting countries to take ownership of their energy. The study integrated the green energy technologies such as solar, biomass, wind, fuel cell bike and carbon footprint to form the experience activities such as "green energy product", "green energy aids" and "interactive game" in a "Green Moving Castle" and moved into the elementary and junior high schools in remote villages and towns to share the green energy scientific knowledge. The activity shared the knowledge with attendance of 1866 and the travel distance of 3399km. 1 Introduction In recent years, the problem of global warming has become more and more serious. The greenhouse effect caused by the massive emission of greenhouse gases which by the extensive use of fossil fuels has seriously impacted the environment and caused global climate variability. 1 With the development of human science and technology, the demand for human reliance on energy has risen sharply since the Industrial Revolution. Among them, the fossil oil and coal fossils are the most mainly energy sources for human beings. In the period, the global demand for fossil fuels increased significantly, coupled with artificial speculation and other factors, the international fossil fuel prices has a dramatic effect in 2008 that caused by global inflation and rising price index and influence people's livelihood economy suffered seriously. Therefore, the world began to actively develop environmentally friendly green energy, in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. 2,3 In the past, oil and energy were in the hands of a handful of powerful countries in the world, and these powers also held the world's technological and economic development. Green renewable energy is now the focus of global attention and a key opportunity for non-oil-exporting countries to take ownership of their energy. The development of green energy technology is a cross-border knowledge, not only related to the resources, but also need policy, education, science and technology and the national people's recognition and support.

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Connecting out-of-school learning to home: Digital postcards from summer camp

Cited by 5 publications

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Faking sociology?: A content analysis of an introductory sociology student photography assignment

Faking sociology?: A content analysis of an introductory sociology student photography assignment

Intergenerational Play Around Immersive Video Games

Integrating Mobile Computers into Informal Science Education

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