Election 2.0

Angela Housand

ahousand@gmail.com

University of North Carolina

Brian Housand

brianhousand@gmail.com

East Carolina University

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This Is What Web 2.0 Means

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21st Century Skills Map

21st Century Skills

• Creativity & Innovation

• Communication

• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

• Information Literacy

• Media Literacy

• Internet Communication Technologies (ICT) Literacy

# of people receiving Obama text message2,900,000

Obama• Obama’s Campaign

changed the way presidential candidates connect with their audience by utilizing modern media outlets: text messaging, advertising in video games, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, and more.

• Eisenhower beat Adlai E. Stevens, by utilizing 1952’s modern media, television. With short messages, catchy slogans, and a polished image, Eisenhower surpassed Stevens who gave long speeches to educate and inform.

Eisenhower

21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Analyze how

media format influences media messages. Analyze how the meaning of a message is influenced by the specific media and the historic context in which the message is conveyed.

• EXAMPLE: Using the recent presidential campaigns, identify similarities and differences between campaign media. Make inferences about which was more successful and provide supporting evidence.

21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Describe

how various forms of visual media are designed to influence beliefs and behaviors. Evaluate specific visual media with the following criteria: source, objectivity, and technical accuracy.

• EXAMPLE: Research a variety of campaign advertisements. Identify the purpose and message of the content

21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Access and

critique sources of information from various types of media, which discuss an historic event. Students analyze the difference between public and private sources of information.

• EXAMPLE: Students view various campaign propaganda to make decisions about purpose and intended audience to critically evaluate the content of the message.

21st Century Skill: Media Literacy• OUTCOME: Describe

how various forms of visual media (e.g. graphics, design, composition) are designed to influence beliefs and behaviors.

• EXAMPLE: Students view various campaign propaganda to identify the objective, purpose, audience, and intended message. Compare and contrast across campaigns.

Google Trends Data for VP Debate

21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Access,

reference, and present information using multiple sources that offer diverse perspectives.

• EXAMPLE: Students compare presidential debate content with Google search data. Utilize discrepancies in data sources (Google Trends and Presidential Debate) to inform candidates about issues for focus.

http://www.mibazaar.com/mccain_igoogle.html

http://www.mibazaar.com/obama_igoogle.html

http://www.mibazaar.com/biden_igoogle.html

http://www.mibazaar.com/palin_igoogle.html

21st Century Skill: Creativity and Innovation• OUTCOME: Students

evidence original thought and inventiveness in response to an assignment, issue or problem.

• EXAMPLE: Students create an interactive timeline. The life of a historic figure is mapped sequentially and integrated with historic events presented in images, story, or poem.

21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• OUTCOME: Use technology to graphically display data about community or state public issue and ask questions about and pose possible solutions to the issue

• EXAMPLE: Students research important community issues and collect date to defend a position a mock town hall meeting. Students present convincing arguments about how they plan to address community concerns as president.

MySpace FaceBook

McCain 198,690 599,979

Obama 777,376 2,268,778

As of 10/26/2008

http://www.mydebates.org

http://www.ning.com

21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• OUTCOME: Use technology

to research and graphically display a reasonable analysis of and prediction about a public issue. Working through a student-safe social networking site, groups of students post a podcast that presents their analysis of a current public issue and prediction about a preferred candidate.

• EXAMPLE: Students use voting patterns, demographic data and socio-economic data from online resources to predict the outcome of elections. Students present their election projection, with supporting evidence. Position discussions continue throughout the election campaign.

21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• OUTCOME: Access information to discover the interconnections between government services and their location in the community.

• EXAMPLE: Students use online resources to better understand the issues important to the community, region, or state of residence and select a candidate based on priority issues.

http://tinyurl.com/685vko

http://labs.google.com/inquotes/

http://labs.google.com/inquotes/

21st Century Skill: Information Literacy• OUTCOME: Gather

original data from various information sources and create graphs or charts to display the information.

• EXAMPLE: Students use online data (e.g. # of supporters) and create spreadsheets to evaluate the data and make predictions about election outcomes.

21st Century Skill: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• OUTCOME: Students use a variety of electronic media to research and present an historic event that impacted the community.

• EXAMPLE: Students make predictions, based on research on the campaign, about what the resolution of the election will mean for their family, community, and state.

Election 2.0

Angela Housand

ahousand@gmail.com

University of North Carolina

Brian Housand

brianhousand@gmail.com

East Carolina University