EDUC 5333 Week 2 Post
The Economic Policy Institute created their interactive website Inequality Is Real to illustrate economic inequality that is faced by citizens in the United States. The included graphics and animation serve to enhance the story by way of having the audience be able to project themselves into the data and statistics being presented to them. The website provides the opportunity to explore the history of economic inequity in the United States, the immediate impact of this inequality to community members actively working in US society, and potential avenues in which to push for solutions to economic inequity. After sharing a few points of your own demographic information, you are able to compare your potential earning power against people of other intersectional genders and races. You are also able to pose your own opinion on what should constitute fair compensation in working society between the working class and the wealthy class, and then are presented with the statistics of where the compensation actually falls.
The education value I see in Inequality Is Real is informing people about the realities of work and compensation in US society that impact on levels they may not be aware of. By presenting the data on earning power in the United States in an interactive medium, the audience is able to connect their own emotions to the content. The ISTE standards for educators that are addressed by the creation of the story are 2.2.b Advocate for Equitable Access “Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students”, and 2.5.c Create Innovative Learning Environments “Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning” (ISTE, 2023). This interactive website is directly providing a learning opportunity for the audience through the use of an interactive website. I think that students working age through adulthood are the target audience of this website, as this information is pertinent to all of those community members. The connections I see to my content area is the use of sound clips to express ideas, as that aligns with OK Fine Arts Standard M.PR.1.1 “Participate in music through singing (individually and in groups, as well as accompanied and unaccompanied) and playing traditional and/or non-traditional instruments (i.e., found sounds)” (OSDE, 2023).
Based on Lambert’s guidance for story creation, this story utilizes layers of audio and visual information, and centers the story of economic inequity being real and impacting our entire US society. This also works to ground the audiences in the problem and think about how the story is unfolding in their terms, not simply numbers and graphs on a page. Based on Ohler’s guidance for story creation, the story map that would best fit the story being told by the Economic Policy Institute would be the 2b. story arc. I believe this is the best fit because the presentation of information is as follows:
The education value I see in Inequality Is Real is informing people about the realities of work and compensation in US society that impact on levels they may not be aware of. By presenting the data on earning power in the United States in an interactive medium, the audience is able to connect their own emotions to the content. The ISTE standards for educators that are addressed by the creation of the story are 2.2.b Advocate for Equitable Access “Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students”, and 2.5.c Create Innovative Learning Environments “Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning” (ISTE, 2023). This interactive website is directly providing a learning opportunity for the audience through the use of an interactive website. I think that students working age through adulthood are the target audience of this website, as this information is pertinent to all of those community members. The connections I see to my content area is the use of sound clips to express ideas, as that aligns with OK Fine Arts Standard M.PR.1.1 “Participate in music through singing (individually and in groups, as well as accompanied and unaccompanied) and playing traditional and/or non-traditional instruments (i.e., found sounds)” (OSDE, 2023).
Based on Lambert’s guidance for story creation, this story utilizes layers of audio and visual information, and centers the story of economic inequity being real and impacting our entire US society. This also works to ground the audiences in the problem and think about how the story is unfolding in their terms, not simply numbers and graphs on a page. Based on Ohler’s guidance for story creation, the story map that would best fit the story being told by the Economic Policy Institute would be the 2b. story arc. I believe this is the best fit because the presentation of information is as follows:
- The introduction of the problem of economic inequality,
- Additional information regarding economic inequality
- Potential solutions for solving economic inequality
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