[Air-L] digital literacy takes a field trip to a farm

[Greg Wise]

The main reason I've done it as a full week is then the assignment
begins to look at habits of media use across various rhythms of
different sorts of days they may have (days when they're mainly in
class, days when they're at work, weekends, and so on). And with a week
you can begin to address questions of habit and routine.

It is a lot to ask, but I think they find it interesting (and a
challenge).

Cheers,

greg

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Greg Wise wrote:
> ...
> The first part of the assignment is for them to keep a diary of every
> encounter with the mass media throughout a week,...
> The second part was called the NO MEDIA WEEK....

You're a hard taskmaster, Greg. I've been doing a similar assignment in 
my Intro to Mass Media course for quite a few years now, connected with 
having the students read the first chapter of Bill McKibben's book, The 
Age of Missing Information. But I only require them to log their media 
use for three days, and then go just ONE DAY without any mass media at 
all -- including books, magazines, newspapers, music, TV, radio, 'net, 
etc. We have an 800 acre campus in a rural area, so it's not hard to 
send them out into the woods. Most of them are going through iPod 
withdrawal symptoms within a few hours. An essay is written and much 
discussion ensues.
-- 
Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Head of the
  Department of Communication Studies
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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