Chapter 4:
"But the question remains: does the fact that some young people may use the Internet and its Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, podcasts, blogs, file sharing sites and social software more than other generations for socializing, information gathering, or leisure purposes (Boyd, 2007) necessarily mean that they will all be motivated to use it for equal volumes of civic or political deliberation and intervention? Our research for CivicWeb, discussed in the following sections, suggests not." (2011, p. 52)
I agree with this quote because I have seen it in the less motivated students in other academic areas.
Chapter 5:
"Teenagers appropriated pagers in the 1990s, and they started to attach meanings to various numbers – for example, 86 (Hachi Roku) means 'Hello.'" (2011, p. 71)
I had never thought about using a pager for social media before. I think this would be very awkward, but they did it, which means they were innovative. We also see here a different language emerging using this pager technology.
Chapter 6:
"From our analysis, it is also evident that regardless of their technical fluency, students still require traditional skills for successful task completion." (2011, p. 95)
From this quote I venture to say that even though students might be comfortable with technology, they still need guidance while learning and producing.
Thomas, M. (2011). Deconstructing digital natives: Young people, technology, and the new literacies. New York: Routledge.
Pushing the Deadline
This meme gives us the impression the due date has slipped up on the student.
It could also express a feeling of not being able to do it without technology.
I choose the word "phone" to go along with the mobile media theme of our reading.
Your meme is very cute and is very applicable with the mobile theme of this week's reading. I know I use my phone instead of a laptop pretty much whenever possible. It's so much more convenient...I can get things done in the car while my husband is driving or while I'm rocking my baby to sleep. Mobile media has significantly increased the convenience factor in our lives.
ReplyDeleteYour meme made me laugh...super cute! It is super true that sometimes we feel as if we can't do anything without our phones or media in general. This chapter spoke so much about that and todays digital natives. I chose the same quote from chapter 6. It stood out to me during the reading because it is true that we still need to be taught things face to face rather than just through the use of technology.
ReplyDeleteKelly Ann, If I had hair mine would look like this every morning (I remember well) what a great way to show how many students deal with deadlines... give me my tools or in this case my phone. I never would have imagined what phones would morph into... and while I prefer to work on my laptop many students are just as comfortable working on the hand-held devices. I also noticed that many of your thoughts followed what I was thinking in this weeks reading as well, it must be an experience thing, Lol
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