Hanging Out: How
did your young person's use of computers reflect friendship driven practices
and facilitate social interaction between their peers? Give concrete examples.
During the interview Lucy expressed her love of
social media and talking to her friends online. She enjoys looking up music and
videos on YouTube while hanging out with her friends. She also plays games on
the computer that interact with her friends when they are at home. For example,
when she plays Clash of Clans she can create her own village but she can also
go and view others as well.
Messing Around:
How did your young person's use of computers provide them with informal
learning opportunities to develop tech savvy skill sets? Give concrete
examples.
During the interview, Lucy talked a lot about
using the computer for social media and helping her mom. Lucy has a Snapchat,
Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. She is very social when it comes to posting
pictures and talking to friends online.
Geeking Out: Has
your young person developed a particular interest or highly specialized skill
sets as a result of their use of computers at home and school? Describe?
Looking at how Lucy has helped her mom with her
boutique and has been using her social media and computer skills to advertise
and get the store known to locals has been a great experience.
Schooling: Does
your young person talk about use of traditional literacy practices like using
correct spelling vs text-messaging lingo? Reading books over the use of the
computer? Writing in traditional genres like poetry or essays? Conducting research for personal or school
related purposes?
Lucy is a very good student and always tries to
use the correct spelling compared to using text-messaging lingo. I was able to
look at her text messages during the interview, with her consent, and her
messages show that she only abbreviates a few words and the rest she types out.
Spelling is a crucial thing for her and she says that she has to spell
everything right or it bothers her.
Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices
Chapter 1:
“ Gee argues that learning through game play is effective
because skills are acquired in the context of the activity rather than through
abstract exercises” (Willett, p.14).
Chapter 3:
“The interconnectedness of the online textual and school
worlds acts as a realty-checking mechanism” (Dowdall, p.55).
Chapter 4:
"The skills and
attitudes that provide young people with opportunities to participate effectively
in this world are often not the skills and attitudes rewarded in our school
system" (Carrington, p.76)
“Like all other technological change, interactive
technologies have emerged alongside other broader social, cultural, and
political reorganization”(Carrington, p.66).
Chapter 5:
“The social affordances of these online texts allow us to
thicken the existing social ties as well as to extend our social networks”
(2009, p.83).
There are many ways teachers can capitalize on student interest .in music videos for learning in school. Here is one such lesson plan:
ReplyDeleteStudents work together to create a short music video for a familiar children's song.
Objectives
Students develop ideas for a music video, create props and/or costumes for the video, demonstrate creative thinking and writing skills, work together as a group to create a five-minute music video about a popular children's song,learn about video equipment.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/011/lp226_05.shtml#sthash.sOu2P1Gz.dpf
You can create a YouTube Channel for your Class for student to upload and share their music videos with the world! Here is an example of a math teacher having students create music videos about math concepts and sharing them on YouTube. Careful. They are addictive:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL122BA5AB093359F9
Both of our interviewees’ pseudonym was Lucy, what a coincidence!
ReplyDeleteObviously, Lucy’s digital literacy practices strongly aligns with socializing; it is reflected not only in her usage of social media, but also in her concern on her spelling and the impression it gives to others when she makes those mistakes.
You’ve already linked the social aspect with digital literacy in some of the quotes that you’ve chosen, but there are a couple more that I’d noted when I read through the chapters that may be beneficial to you as well:
“We therefore see digital literacy as a set of social practices that are interwoven with contemporary ‘ways of being’” (p. 83).
“. . . ‘nearly all everyday activities in the contemporary world are mediated by literacy and that people act within a textually mediated social world” (p. 83).
I meant to include this quote as well, in regards to Lucy's communication:
Delete“. . .complexity of virtual world chat, giving weight to the argument that the written conversations that take place are an emerging and important form of synchronous interaction -- a new kind of literacy” (p. 97).
It seems that the girl that you interviewed has really used her social media skills to her advantage in a real-life advertising outlet. I thought that this went very well with your quote from chapter 4 about the skills that students have with technology out of school are not necessarily the ones that are rewarded in school. I think that this is mostly true but there is some room for students to show these skills at times in the classroom. That will definitely be a quote that i keep in mind for my final project!
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