Mindy Project Media Study Guide

The spider’s web metaphor can work to represent a constructivist learning process. The knowledge structures from the different radius threads, framed by previous experiences, come together and intersect as the spider spins the spiral threads. The web is an accumulation and synthesis of many different knowledge sources as well as educational principles. Similarly, the constructivist learning theory, proposes that learning is a construct based on both experiences and ideas, and collaboration plays a key role.

The Mindy Project Media Study Guide was completed as a group project for the ETEC531:  Cultural and New Media Studies course. In keeping with constructivist learning principles the project itself was a group collaboration, with the focus on media education and literacy in education. Even the technology that our group used to create the media study guide, LucidPress, enables users to collaborate online during the writing, editing, design and formatting process. All the media study guides produced by the class were compiled into an online book created by ETEC531 peers. This enables sharing of knowledge to a wider audience.