{"id":209,"date":"2021-02-27T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T01:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-02-27T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T01:58:57","slug":"task-7-mode-bending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/2021\/02\/27\/task-7-mode-bending\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 7: Mode-Bending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Task 7: Mode-Bending\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVrtXkcU3G0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Original task: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/2021\/01\/18\/task-1-whats-in-my-bag\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/2021\/01\/18\/task-1-whats-in-my-bag\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For this redesigned task, I kept true to the nature of the &#8220;What&#8217;s in my Bag?&#8221; task we did in our first week, but re-represented in video game form! I used my character from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, to show what I kept in my teacher bag. The spirit of the activity is to introduce ourselves through the little stories (texts) that each item held. As mentioned in my first week, I&#8217;m the kind of person who puts a lot of value in the meanings and stories behind each personal belonging. There were some limitations to using Animal Crossing, as my backpack items aren&#8217;t readily found in the game, and thus I had to use some &#8220;item replacements&#8221; and hope the idea behind it is enough to convey meaning (similar to Task 6&#8217;s emoji story).<\/p>\n<p>If I were to do this in my classroom, I would use my video as an example and encourage students to show me what&#8217;s in THEIR video game bag. It doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to correspond with their real life backpack (like mine), but rather they can show me what is in their &#8216;inventory&#8217; in their video games. Over the past few years, especially this year, a large percentage of my class plays video games. The types of games they play make up their identity (e.g., strong divide over League of Legends gamers and Rogue Lineage). By asking students to talk about their video game selves, it opens up opportunities for them to talk about themselves! Another remix of this activity could be to &#8220;Show Me What&#8217;s on your Phone Screen.&#8221; For my students, most of their school backpacks will look the same and may not show much of their identity. However, their device is personal to them; the apps they are on, the wallpaper they&#8217;ve chosen&#8230;these are all texts <em>about<\/em> them, <em>selected<\/em> by them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-217 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG_0578-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG_0578-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG_0578-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG_0578-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/files\/2021\/02\/IMG_0578.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increasing saliency of cultural and linguistic diversity and the multiplicity of communications channels and media\u201d require us to redefine what literacy means to us now (Group, 1996, p.63). Literacy then, is not just language but a social practice that encapsulates multimodal meaning-making. This can include involving the visual, audio, spatial, and behavioural. For students, creating videos or producing small pieces of media to represent understanding falls under this new definition of literacy. It makes sense. The way students have taken ownership over their media consumption and production <em>necessitates<\/em> that we as educators address this. Rather than asking students to just tell me about themselves in a letter, activities such as these also help with teaching students what literacy means and open up avenues for them to show understanding in future assignments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">References<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Group, N. L. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. <em>Harvard Educational Review, 66<\/em>(1), pp. 60-92.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original task: https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/metjennifer\/2021\/01\/18\/task-1-whats-in-my-bag\/ For this redesigned task, I kept true to the nature of the &#8220;What&#8217;s in my Bag?&#8221; task we did in our first week, but re-represented in video game form! I used my character from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, to show what I kept in my teacher bag. 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