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the vision of iVoices
there is a problem in how we teach about tech.
Courses in social and instructional technologies leave out students' perspectives on technologies they are immersed in.
tech knowledge is literacy.
Users make sense of technologies personally, ideologically, and culturally. This is knowledge and literacy.
students' tech history is part of who they are.
When we ignore students’ distinct histories with technologies in our classrooms, we make them feel less knowledgeable than when class began.
personal and cultural knowledge matters.
Students learn by drawing on the environments they know. Scholarship on Latinx learners has found that students form critical “funds of knowledge”* from personal and cultural experiences.
we can access students' tech knowledge through their stories.
All students have funds of knowledge about social and instructional tech in their lives. All can share this knowledge through creating stories.
this is where ivoices begins.
iVoices channels knowledge shared through students’ stories into new media, curricula, and scholarship.
from gen ed to media lab.
We've transformed the large General Education course "Social Media and Ourselves" into a student-centered think tank and digital media lab.
MEET OUR TEAM
At right: Professor Diana Daly, Head of iVoices, teaching Social Media and Ourselves in Fall 2018.
Student media lab workers
Our iVoices Student Media Lab Workers help train our large classes in digital storytelling, and produce stories into high quality podcasts, visual stories, and multimedia teaching resources for the students of Social Media and Ourselves.
Not Pictured: Kathryn Miller, Online Writing
The 150*150
Students in the Gen Ed Course ESOC 150, Social Media and Ourselves, learn from the 2-4-6-8, our teaching teams, and scholars to transform their experiences with technologies into knowledge through media assignments. There are 150 of these students expected each semester beginning in Fall 2020, hence the name. And we are grateful for the remarkable archive of stories volunteered by students enrolled in the past.
ThE i.C.O.S.
The iVoices Community of Scholars are new media and technology scholars guiding iVoices student participants toward relevant topics and gaps in research on new media and technologies, through guest lectures and meetings with the 2-4-6-8.
Not pictured: Shelley Staples, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP; Dr. Hong Cui, Head of Bio-Semantics Research Group at the University of Arizona iSchool
The interns
Our interns organize our archive of student stories, our textbook's collection of Creative Commons media, and our corpus of evaluations and produced media.
Spring 2021
Spring 2021 Interns Not Currently Pictured: Crystal Brannen, Paige Carlson
Fall 2020
TIMELINE
You can also go to the complete timeline Prezi.
MORE OF our work
You've checked out our open textbook Humans R Social Media and our podcast Social Media and Ourselves. Here is a sample of work we've produced.
teaching
media
RESEARCH
We are changing the face of INQUIRY.
By 2023, research based on iVoices will shed light on how experiences with technologies shape student learning, and illuminate novel technology practices and meaning for new media scholarship.
RQ1: Tech experiences shape learning engagement
- How do undergraduate students' experiences with technologies shape their engagement in learning throughout their college careers?
RQ2: Student perspectives enrich scholarship
- In what ways do students’ narratives around technologies enrich new media scholarship?
RQ3: Integrating student knowledge into curricula
- How do we best integrate student knowledge around technologies into new media curricula?
RQ4: Training students in media production and leadership
- What are the impacts of training students in media production and leadership on students and their communities?
RQ5: Best practices for a student media lab in higher ed
- What are best practices for a media lab around student perspectives on social and educational technologies?
OUR diversity STATEMENT
iVoices Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
iVoices is committed to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI). We recognize and understand that these complex issues have been publicly vaunted to the national forefront during this critical time. In that spirit, iVoices recognizes that not all DEI issues are as visible or openly discussed as others. This is especially true in discourse around technologies, which historically obscures diverse voices and perspectives. We have seen even algorithmic determinations, once regarded neutral and lacking bias, recently become subject to critique and intense scrutiny regarding the obscuring of diversity, equality, and inclusivity of different users and their respective communities.
Intricate and sensitive topics such as gender identity, sexual orientation, and health matters may remain ensconced within the private and individual realms unless invited into more public conversation. Through iVoices, students are invited to contribute stories to the open textbook Humans Are Social Media and other media as valuable participants of the multifaceted UA student body. iVoices is committed to highlighting these crucial differences and diverse experiences among students, which make the UA student body one of the most unique among universities across the country.
We are grateful
to the University of Arizona, especially:
- The School of Information
- The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Our Digital Learning partners
WORK WITH US
With support from the Center for University Education and Scholarship, iVoices Student Media Lab has both student jobs (paid) and internships (unpaid) available. The work can be online during the pandemic. Employees and interns will be focused on media production including curation of a collection of student audio stories, interviewing and story production around their own and other students' experiences with social and educational technologies, and training other students in these practices.
To learn more about iVoices, email didaly (at) arizona (dot) edu.
*Work cited
- González, N., Moll, L. C., & Amanti, C. (Eds.). (2006). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. Routledge.
Credits:
Created with images by geralt - "directory signposts wood" • SplitShire - "smartphone hands screen" • Christina @ wocintechchat.com - "untitled image" • Shawn Fields - "untitled image" • Marcos Luiz Photograph - "Worship" • KAL VISUALS - "A little OTS action." • Jakob Owens - "BTS" • Antoine Beauvillain - "A shot I took during my previous “A shot a day” challenge. It actually got used by websites, blogs, and companies which was nice (and freaked my friends when seeing my face out of nowhere)." • Jakayla Toney - "Camera" • Alina Grubnyak - "untitled image" • Kaleidico - "untitled image" • Annie Spratt - "Team work, work colleagues, working together" • CX Insight - "conferences are a great opportunity for professionals to discuss a particular topic. This allows professionals to share, conduct discussions, and even find solutions. Conferences are also useful for updating our knowledge of a topic that interests us. It helps us to gain knowledge and insight." • Brooke Cagle - "Sponsored by Google Chromebooks" • augustfinster - "sparks welding industrial work" • Christina @ wocintechchat.com - "untitled image" • geralt - "personal network social media"