Sunday, July 19, 2015
Interview Part 2
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Hanging out- Her responses coordiate with friendship by her wish to use the technology at school to check her social media sites. She mentioned she had many.
Messing around- her use of computers provided her with informal learning opportunitiess by using Google to look up interesting things, playing educational games from teachers, and also how to use a keyboard in general and internet tools on her own.
Geekingg out- I believe she has deveoloped a particular interest in many things from her enjoyment of researching different topics on Google. She also enjoys different games that I personally know are educational. She is a very bright student.
Schooling- She does not mention the use of lingo in our interivew, reading books, or writing traditionally. I did not really ask her to elaborate on any of those topics. However, she does mention that she enjoys reading about different topics.
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"One technological determinist view represents contemporary children as increasingly 'active' and 'worldly' because there are now technologies that enable and encourage this."
"The enormous variety of blogs- sometimes referred to as the 'blogosphere'- includes serious and trivial material and is a largely unregulared clamour of indiviual and group voices. Depending on one's point of view, this can be seen as a fascinating diversity of human expression or a confusion of unfiltered information and opinion."
"When part of the reality of a situation is virtual, and the actors and researchers are both physically embodied and actualized in the virtual world as avatars, the research context can be conceived as a number of layered realities."
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The first quote you chose is also one I chose from page 66 of our text. I also found another quote further up on this page that I thought might apply to your young person’s literacy practices, “The emergence of digital technologies has enabled the development and use of a range of digital text, many of which are enabling practices that challenge the informational and moral economies built around print text.”
ReplyDeleteI think your young person would greatly benefit from using social media to make public her writing and thinking about ideas that are of interest to her. here is a website that has 10 ways to use Instagram in the classroom. I also want to point you to Tavi Gevinson author of the Blog the Rookie http://www.thestylerookie.com/ The gilrs inteviewed for this class would seem to greatly benefit from being allowed to expresss themselves in this public and sophisticated formate.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that many of the youths we’ve interviewed for this assignment have suggested their desire to use Facebook in school. My first thought was why, when they see probably much of the same friends in school as they do on social media. However, perhaps that’s a desire to wanting a more social experience while in school or that it affords them the opportunity to express themselves and participate in multi-modal ways that they otherwise can’t in school.
ReplyDeleteI’ve found myself returning to page 83 from Chapter 5 in regards to digital literacy in relation to socializing. In particular, I believe that the quote below stands out to me:
“The social affordances of these online texts allow us to thicken existing social ties as well as to extend our social networks” (p. 83).
Just like the young person that I interviewed, it seems that yours was also proficient in "googling" skills. I think that it is very interesting to see that they know how to research and retrieve information on their own. It will only make them better in the future at using tools such as EBSCOHost. I also found it interesting that a large portion of your posting had to do with blogs. I think that blogs are a great tool to use in school.
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