Entry #10

1. What is the fundamental problem with the discourses around children's use of technology?

"Hide the key shaping actors, the values and power relations behind the increasing use of ICT in society” (Selwyn, 2003, p. 368).

2. What is meant by the term "moral panic"? Link to an image, online article, cartoon, or some other resource that depicts the "moral panic" associated with young people's use of digital technologies.

                                                              Video games.

 

3. How do you feel about engaging in more "collaborative learning" during your education at Fairmont State?

 I feel that it will be a good thing while I'm here. I believe that it will help out greatly in learning how to teach.

4. Do you think Universities should move to a more free-market based privatization business model? Why?

Not sure if that should happen because someone who barely made it into a low standard college shouldn't be allowed into an Ivy League College. Most of this school pride their self on high educational goals.

5. According to the author what is wrong with Prenskey's revised position on his definition of "digital native"? Do you agree with this authors criticism of Prenskey's view of the role technology plays in the education of young people?

Prenskey hasn't really address this yet, but I feel that it will need to be accepted  by everyone to work out right in the future. I feel that technology in th class enables learning abilities in large varties of ways.

6. What are the characteristics of Millennial? Are you a Millennial?

"Most recent form of the civic generation, who are said to be heroic, collegial, and rationalistic. Interestingly they are also said to have core values that include community, technology, and affluence."I consider myself to be aMillennial. I do tend have the values of community, technology and affluence.

7. Do you think there is such a thing as the "Net Generation"? Why? Why not?

I do believe that there will be another gerneration after use becasue all of the development that have been made already. 

8. What is meant by the term "networked individualism"?

"The term “networked individualism” suggests a move away from place-to-place interaction towards interactions that are person-to-person in character."

9. How would you feel about Fairmont State discontinuing the use of Blackboard and Webmail to using Gmail and Google tools?

I would lost for awhile because i have become acustom to the use of Webmail and Blackboard.

10. Why does the term "Digital Native" persist despite lack of empirical evidence of age related difference due to rapid increase of digital technologies?

"There is a general need to stereotype in order to reduce complexity and to apply simplified rules of thumb."

11. Who societal sector seems to be benefiting the most from the social construction of a "Digital Native" generation?

Commercial and market interests.

12. Which argument about "digital natives" needs to be discarded and which one needs to be explored? Why?

"The ubiquitous nature of the certain technologies, specifically gaming and the Webt, has affected the outlook of an entire age cohort in advanced economies." - Needs to be abandoned because of the empirical evidence.

"The new technologies emerging with the generation have particular characteristics that afford certain types of social engagement." - Needs to be explored. The way new technologies are changing the approaches that young people take, not in generational ways, but in ways that are significant and require careful observation and assessment.

Sources:  Thomas, Michael (2011-04-29). Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies (p. 33-42). 
 
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