Connecting with Participatory Culture: Clickers and Deep Learning
Derek Bruff
Vanderbilt University
www.derekbruff.com
@derekbruff
#ULclickers
"Event" TV
Like Buttons
Text-to-Vote
Serious Fans
Volunteerism
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/main
Matter of Trust - Hair Booms
"Academy Award Winner," Dave_B_, Flickr
"Fire and Ice," ecstaticist, Flickr
Student Perspective Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
"141/366: Davids," Bright_Star, Flickr
Peer Assessment Questions
"Empty," Shaylor, Flickr
Visualization by Derek Hansen,
Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information,
University of Maryland
Misconception Questions
"Colourful army," maistora, Flickr
"Zoe's color histogram," Tony Crider, Flickr
"Something's Gotta Give," Cyron, Flickr
Absolutist
"m i n i mnms," inajeep, Flickr
Relativist
"Bronze Age Balance," diffendale, Flickr
Evaluative
"Score Cards," Poundcommapound, Flickr
Question: "Teaching Statistics" by Gelman & Nolan
Voting Data: Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University
On how many of the services seen here have you liked, rated, or favorited something?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. All 5
In a 2008 study of over 1,000 posts made to a "Worlds of Warcraft" discussion forum, what percent of posts involved "social knowledge construction"--solving problems through discussion, knowledge sharing, and debate--as opposed to "mere social banter"?

A. 6%
B. 26%
C. 46%
D. 66%
E. 86%

"Mentos + Diet Coke," the Cobras, Flickr
Times for Telling
Schwartz & Bransford (1998)
Kuhn (1992)
Kuhn (1992)
Kuhn (1992)
2010 Winter Olympics
2010 Academy Awards
"On social-media platforms, it was a conversation about
fashion (what is J. Lo wearing?),
race (why do they cut to Morgan Freeman every time Precious wins an award?) and
politics (Fox News paranoiac Glenn Beck tweeted that Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker was "an anti US/human movie against an anti US/Troops movie")."

--James Poniewozik, "Twitter and TV: How Social Media Is Helping Old Media," Time
If students are used to engaging with, not just consuming, media, why is it difficult to have them participate during class?

A. They're not as confident engaging face-to-face as they are online.
B. Engaging with pop culture is one thing; engaging with academic material is another.
C. When grades are on the line, students aren't motivated to engage meaningfully.
D. Students enroll in courses for reasons other than intrinsic interest.
E. Something else...
"Skates," marythom, Flickr
86% - Social knowledge construction
58% - Systems-based reasoning
37% - Use of counter-arguments
28% - Use of data, evidence
11% - Model-based reasoning
"Scientific Habits of Minds in Virtual Worlds," Constance Steinkuehler & Sean Duncan, 2009
"displayed an evaluative epistemology in which knowledge is treated as an open-ended process of evaluation and argument."
65%
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B.
C.
D.
Unskippable Classes?