Was there anything about defining the problem that you were concerned about?
As we are in the beginning of our second year as PhD students, I think I speak for many of us when I worry that someone, somewhere else has already solved the problem we are working to identify. The solution to this would be to look for a facet of the problem that hasn’t been fully explored or to repeat a study to test the study’s reliability. Regarding Digital Literacy, the problem is conflation of adjacent literacies because the terms are still in development and remain flexible. What is really interesting, is that when I explain my research, most people don’t apply Digital Literacy the way I have explained it, but instead they talk about a literacy they have trouble learning such as computer literacy (hardware), media literacy, bit literacy, information literacy, and cultural literacy. It will be a challenge to ensure my reader understands the scope of digital literacy and is not working from a different literacy perception or framework.
What was the experience of thinking through defining your product idea and creating a visual depiction of what the components may be? What did you like and/or struggle with?
At first, I gravitated toward the highly structured and organized rubric-styled visual like the evaluation tree of ed tech shown in class. The rows and colors allowed the reader to follow the intended path while seeing how each row addressed unique areas of the problem. But our team’s preference was to show progressive reasoning along three major branches. The trickiest part was showing the synchronous weighing of user choices against digital bloom’s taxonomy levels to ensure alignment of curated solutions to learning environments and needs.
What are you anticipating will be challenging in Task Two? What resources do you feel like you need?
What will not be too difficult to identify for the programmer, reader, or user is the need for the product, visualizing and defining the product, the supporting learning theory and framework, and software design. What I think our team needs to focus on and is the largest challenge is specifying what needs to be engineered with a high level of detail. I think we need to consult with an IT team of programmers to ask what are typical questions they need answered at the beginning of a project.
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