Class Project Day: Defining Learning Objectives For This Course

Now that you've been introduced, at least briefly, to the scope and some of the concerns of new media studies, it's a good time to stop and reflect on what you'd like to learn in this course. What would you like to know, what would you like to be able to do, what would you like to have made by the last day of classes? How would you like this course to shape your future work, and your life as a citizen in an increasingly mediated global society?

For today's class meeting, discuss the class and your readings so far, and come up with a list of learning objectives. Each of your objectives should be supported by a rationale of some sort (i.e., explain why you want to learn this, and how that goal emerges from what you've read so far), and that rationale should be at least three or four sentences long. By the end of class you should have collaboratively composed at least four solid learning objectives. If you come up with more than four, that's fine too. Be sure to tie the objectives explicitly and fully to the readings we've done to date--don't just do your work in a vacuum.

In addition to the learning objectives you draft collaboratively, you can also list and support your personal learning objectives--but that's optional.

My goal for this assignment is to to get you to reflect carefully on what you've learned and use that reflection to push out imaginatively into the work we'll do together.

Oh, and feel free to put links, videos, images, etc. on this page as part of your work if you like. Good luck, and watch the wiki for your Thursday assignment, which I'll post Wednesday night.

Completed Learning Objectives