I interviewed two siblings to compare their technology uses and views. This is the link to the spread sheet in my Google Drive.
Young Person Interview
My thoughts about connections to our texts:
One chapter talked about a girl using a blog site for stories. Chapter 5 Digital Natives (?)
Students aren't using technology available to them if the teachers aren't trained or aren't willing to use it.
Digital Literacies:
Pg. 30 ". . . social networking sites mainly patronized by teenagers who use these online spaces to instant message, keep blogs, upload photographs, exchange music files, and much more."
Digital Natives:
“Technological infrastructure, therefore, does play a part in supporting learning either “on task” and “off task,” and poor infrastructure leads to a loss of time that students are engaged in learning.” (Thomas, 2011, p. 94)
"From our analysis, it is also evident that regardless of their technical fluency, students still require traditional skills for successful task completion." (Thomas, 2011, p. 95)
“Using the Internet does not automatically guarantee participation in the information society, hence assistance is required in order to engage them in relevant activities." (Thomas, 2011, p. 148)
"Some may argue that the integration undertaken in these case studies falls short of radically changing education to be more like the everyday world, but the very issue highlighted by such studies is that the context of formal education, with its particular values and practices, is different from informal and non-formal contexts."(Thomas, 2011, p. 177)
Now that grading is online, that is what most students use their computers or phones for in regards to school. They are always checking to see if new grades are posted and trying to figure out what they need to do to maintain or better their grade. I think it is a consensus that most school computers are very slow and students get frustrated and walk away. Most youth use phones to do everything from research to social networking.
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