Just released! The 2024 Edition of our open textbook Humans R Social Media >>
iVoices Media Lab is a three-year project that channels knowledge shared through students’ stories into new media, curricula, and scholarship.
We <3 Student stories.
At iVoices we produce, teach, and learn from students' stories about tech in their lives, through teaching, media production, research, and scholarship.
Our Vision
THERE IS A PROBLEM IN HOW WE TEACH ABOUT TECH.
Courses in social and instructional technologies leave out students' perspectives on technologies they are immersed in.
TECH KNOWLEDGE IS LITERACY.
Users make sense of technologies personally, ideologically, and culturally. This is knowledge and literacy.
STUDENTS' TECH HISTORY IS PART OF WHO THEY ARE.
When we ignore students’ distinct histories with technologies in our classrooms, we make them feel less knowledgeable than when class began.
PERSONAL AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE MATTERS.
Students learn by drawing on the environments they know. Scholarship on Latinx learners has found that students form critical “funds of knowledge”* from personal and cultural experiences.
WE CAN ACCESS STUDENTS' TECH KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THEIR STORIES.
All students have funds of knowledge about social and instructional tech in their lives. All can share this knowledge through creating stories.
THIS IS WHERE IVOICES BEGINS.
iVoices channels knowledge shared through students’ stories into new media, curricula, and scholarship.
FROM GEN ED TO MEDIA LAB.
We've transformed the large General Education course "Social Media and Ourselves" into a student-centered think tank and digital media lab.
Our work includes an open textbook, Humans R Social Media, and a podcast, Social Media & Ourselves. Explore this site to see more of our media.
iVoices work has been funded thanks to the generous support of the Center for University Education and Scholarship, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the College of Information at the University of Arizona.
Christina @ wocintechchat.com - "untitled image" • Shawn Fields - "untitled image" • Marcos Luiz Photograph - "Worship" • KAL VISUALS - "A little OTS action." • Jakob Owens - "BTS" • Antoine Beauvillain - "A shot I took during my previous “A shot a day” challenge. It actually got used by websites, blogs, and companies which was nice (and freaked my friends when seeing my face out of nowhere)." • Jakayla Toney - "Camera"