It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Chapters 7-8 Chapter 7: Literacy Are Today’s Youth Digital Natives? Quote: “Developing wisdom requires active learning….many of the media literacy skills needed to be digitally savvy require a level of engagement that goes far beyond what the average teen picks up hanging out with friends on Facebook and Twitter. Question? How do we change the conversation in education to not assume students are natives but instead show they too, need explicit instruction in media literacy. Connection: This goes back to the very first video that we had to watch that discussed resident vs. visitor. Epiphany- Our students today are not digital natives. We cannot assume that just because they see iphones and ipads in their homes or similar products that they are going to know how to run a powerpoint or embed links when sharing to other teachers. We absolutely will fail students if we believe that just because it is all around them that they completely understand how and why to use digital tools. Chapter 8: Searching For a Public of Their Own Quote: “ “Computer Scientist Vint Cerf has said, “The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see. If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.” Question: So...how do we fix society? Connection: After just watching “The Danger of a Single Story” I think one step toward making society better is remembering the internet and our ability to tell our stories and keeping in the forefront of our minds that every story has multiple stories is key. Epiphany- We are not going to fix society- there will always be a struggle and good and evil but we can shift how society reacts to the presumed negativity of teens online. Instead of pointing fingers we need to do a better job as adults at guiding teens and younger children to live both digitally and in real life. Works Cited: Boyd, D. (n.d.). It's complicated: The social lives of networked teens.
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