metacognition

Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on October 14th, 2021
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This algorithmic literacy workshop puts a new spin on media literacy by moving beyond fake news to examine the algorithms that shape our online experiences and how we encounter information in our everyday lives.

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By the end of the #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy workshop, students will be able to:

  1. describe recommender system algorithms in order to examine how they shape individuals' online experiences through personalization
  2. analyze their online behaviors and subsequent ad profiles in order to reflect on how they influence how individuals encounter, perceive, & evaluate information, leading to echo chambers & political polarization
  3. assess how their data is used to personalize their online experience in order to build algorithmic awareness & make informed, intentional choices about their information consumption
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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "#ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2021. https://projectcora.org/assignment/foryou-algorithms-attention-economy.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on October 16th, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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In the Digital Leadership Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. recognize that online behavior is persistent and there is no guarantee that it will remain private (despite privacy settings)
  2. anticipate how perceptions of their online behavior can impact their personal and professional opportunities and make informed, intentional decisions regarding their activity
  3. align their online activity within the context of their future profession
  4. model constructive online behaviors as student leaders and future professionals
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Multidisciplinary

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Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Leadership Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-leadership-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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DigitalWellnessLessonPlan_Chisholm_HartmanCaverly.pdfdisplayed 2977 times172.74 KB
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In the Digital Wellness Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. evaluate & articulate their digital wellness priorities
  2. recognize that their relationship with technology can have real world impact on their personal wellbeing, including relationships, mental health, & professional aspirations
  3. align their online activity & habits within the context of their wellness goals
  4. model constructive online and offline behaviors as individuals, student leaders, and future professionals
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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Wellness Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-wellness-workshop.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on March 23rd, 2020
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The Penn State Berks Privacy Workshop Series focuses on privacy issues for students in the past, present, and future.  The Privacy Workshop spotlights privacy practices and concerns in the current moment; Digital Leadership explores future implications of past and current digital behaviors; Digital Shred provides tools to evaluate and mitigate the damage of past digital behaviors; and Digital Wellness focuses on privacy across the lifespan - bringing together the past, present, & future by finding a balance of technology & wellness, while aligning habits and goals.  Each workshop is grounded in theory – countering approaches that overpromise user control in the face of information asymmetries and the control paradox – and embrace students’ autonomy and agency by avoiding prescribed solutions, and instead encouraging decision-making frameworks.

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PersonalDataIntegrityPlan_DigitalShred_PennStateBerks.pdfdisplayed 1133 times625.92 KB
DamageAssessment_IdealPortfolio_DigitalShred_PennStateBerks.pdfdisplayed 694 times786.93 KB
DigitalShredLessonPlan_Chisholm_HartmanCaverly_Glenn.pdfdisplayed 799 times165.59 KB
Learning Outcomes: 

In the Digital Shred Workshop, students will be able to:

  1. Reflect on and describe their digital privacy priorities in order to articulate the benefits and risks of their digital dossier
  2. Apply a growth mindset to critically examine their current data exhaust // digital footprint and recognize when change is needed
  3. Develop a Personal Data Integrity Plan that makes routine the process of auditing and updating their digital dossier in alignment with their privacy values
  4. Describe “digital shred” and its importance.
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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Digital Shred Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/digital-shred-workshop.
Submitted by Robert Miller on March 27th, 2019
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Students self-reflect on ways in which they do research and create knowledge. This is a discussion topic in an online library research class. My students are mostly adult learners with full-time jobs.

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Students will be able to articulate a situation in their life where they conduct research, create knowledge, and share it with others.

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

A graded discussion in a 1-credit, online, library research class.

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Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips: 

It might be nice to have the students read something on metaliteracy, because that is what they are doing here--self-reflecting on research and knowledge creation. But I have gotten as far as that, identifying and giving them a reading.

Suggested Citation: 
Miller, Robert. "You as Knowledge Creator." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/you-knowledge-creator.
Submitted by Alexandria Chisholm on December 6th, 2018
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This workshop delivers an action-oriented introduction to personal data privacy designed for new college students. The session is designed to reveal the systems in place to collect and analyze online behavioral data, and to unveil the real-world consequences of online profiling in contexts like sentiment shaping, consumer preferences, employment, healthcare, personal finance, and law enforcement. In lieu of a prescriptive approach, students analyze case studies to observe how online behaviors impact real-world opportunities and reflect on the benefits and risks of technology use to develop purposeful online behaviors and habits that align with their individual values. Developing knowledge practices regarding privacy and the commodification of personal information and embodying the core library values of privacy and intellectual freedom, the workshop promotes a proactive rather than reactive approach and presents a spectrum of privacy preferences across a range of contexts in order to respect students’ autonomy and agency in personal technology use.

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PrivacyWorkshopLessonPlan_Chisholm_Hartman-Caverly.pdfdisplayed 715 times189.3 KB
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Students will be able to: 1. recognize how their personal data and metadata are collected, along with the potential implications of such data collection 2. assess how their data is shared and make informed, intentional choices to safeguard their privacy 3. identify privacy issues facing our society 4. describe the positive case for privacy as a human right fundamental to individual well-being

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Multidisciplinary

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Suggested Citation: 
Chisholm, Alexandria. "Privacy Workshop." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/privacy-workshop.
Submitted by Susan Archambault on June 13th, 2015
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A research diary is a log of the steps and thought processes researchers go through as they conduct their research.  A research diary gives students the opportunity to reflect on the research process as they discover more information about a topic. 

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Learning Outcomes: 
  • Conceptualize an effective research strategy and collect and interpret evidence
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Multidisciplinary

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Archambault, Susan. "Research Diary." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2015. https://projectcora.org/assignment/research-diary.
Submitted by Dean Scheibel on June 10th, 2015
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Students are asked to reflect on their experience writing a required “literature review” for the course through a first-person “comic.” The visual narrative format allows students to come to terms with their own experience of what was hard, easy, or confusing about the literature review process and express it in a creative way.

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Learning Outcomes: 

To reflect on the process of writing and executing a thorough Review of the Literature on a topic within the field of Communication Studies

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CMST 204 RUBRIC FOR COMIC REFLECTION.docxdisplayed 724 times22.18 KB
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Scheibel, Dean. "Using Comics to Reflect on Academic Work." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2015. https://projectcora.org/assignment/using-comics-reflect-academic-work.