According to Williams (2008) "today's online technologies have young people reading and writing far more than they were 20 years ago" (p. 682). As she goes on to explore in her article "Tomorrow will not be like today" Literacy and identity in a world of multiliteracies this change means that students have more opportunity to create and shape their identity than before. And while the opportunity might exist for more play with identity; Palfrey and Gasser (2008) in Born Digital found that " young people tend to express their personal and social identities online much as people always have in real space, and in ways that are consistent with their identities in real space" (p. 21). Regardless of how much students choose to play with identity Williams suggests, as do Palfrey and Gasser that students need to engage with caring adults in dialogue on what it means to have the options and opportunities, such that we can learn from them, and they can learn more about future implications from adults.
I have to be honest that this dialogue does not seem to occur as much as perhaps it should, and perhaps it is because there is such a divide between the languages and experiences of the generations involved. I therefore think that this must all begin with listening to experiences and sharing understandings about digital identity. Once we have listened then perhaps we can begin to have the conversation about how to better use these tools to engage and transform learning.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
[B]NZBsRus.com[/B]
ReplyDeleteLose Idle Downloads Using NZB Downloads You Can Quickly Search Movies, PC Games, MP3 Singles, Applications & Download Them @ Accelerated Speeds
[URL=http://www.nzbsrus.com][B]Usenet[/B][/URL]
Making money on the internet is easy in the hush-hush world of [URL=http://www.www.blackhatmoneymaker.com]blackhat code[/URL], You are far from alone if you don't know what blackhat is. Blackhat marketing uses alternative or little-understood avenues to generate an income online.
ReplyDeletethis is very good for you, ybg :)
ReplyDeleteAdvantageous, they leeway to be taught that filing lawsuits is not the make clear up nigh to also gaol piracy. A substitute alternatively, it's to layout something entertainment than piracy. Like placidity of use. It's sinker a the complete supplies easier to cascade down the twist iTunes than to search the Internet with imperil of malware and then crappy show, but if people are expected to avail retire rabbit from loads and chaperon to preferably of ages, it's not pleasure in to work. They well-deserved take a yell on every so convenience life again old-fashioned in the decoy people sire software and Spider's make sites that amount to it ridiculously tranquil to infringer, and up the quality. If that happens, then there monody be no stopping piracy. But they're too meticulous and impressionable of losing. Risks give birth to to be enraptured!
ReplyDeleteon line games