HONORS SEMINAR II: INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
COURSE GOALS:
Students will understand the application of the terms "critical thinking" and "metacognition."
Students will refine their production and editing skills for an authentic audience.
Students will passionately pursue a self-selected topic of interest.
Students will think long-term about their goals and outcomes.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
By the end of Honors Seminar II, 100% of students will have successfully been introduced to the Paul & Elder model of critical thinking and know how to create and produce a podcast.
INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS:
The student will be familiar with the Edublogs format and will understand internet privacy concerns.
The student will understand how to
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, the student will produce three podcasts with their peers that meet the quality standards for submission to a national contest.
By the end of the course, the student will produce a self-guided project based on a topic of personal interest.
In Honors Seminar II, Scholars will continue many of the foundational elements from Seminar I: they will deepen their relationship with critical thinking and metacognition and demonstrate their ability to manage time through project-based learning throughout the semester. The course will be divided into two major components to be covered each quarter. In the first part, students will demonstrate their knowledge of their selected text from an American historical perspective by participating in a small group podcast. Students will create a format, topic, and theme for their podcast and learn from the process. Students will then create a submission for the NPR Student Podcast Challenge that will meet all of the competition's criteria (can be found here). In the second part of the course, students will learn about the Paul & Elder model of critical thinking and focus on fairmindedness and metacognition. Students will be assigned to a media source and will blog about the source's adherence to fairmindedness. By doing so, they will develop a greater understanding of media bias and the importance of critical thinking as a form of civic engagement.