Using Blogs to Teach Strategies for Inquiry into the Construction of Lived and Text Worlds

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This paper describes a teacher-researcher collaboration aimed at teaching students strategies for inquiry into the
constructed nature of lived and text worlds – a pedagogical objective consistent with goals of media literacy. As
an introduction to these strategies, students were asked to engage in a commonly used media literacy tool – a
blog – to explore the socially and culturally constructed aspects of their own lived worlds. As students blogged,
they were also asked to examine the represented worlds in a literary text – To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960).
Research discussed in this paper examines the specific affordances of blogs for helping students acquire these
new strategies for critical inquiry.

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