I want to introduce TED community to teachers of composition or literature. Utilizing TEDTalks would be highly constructive in those classes. The rapid development of the new media has been difficult to equate the process of its actual practice into…
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The Great Technology Divide between Baby Boomers and Children of the Great Depression
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
While Seiter brings up many interesting points about how technology exacerbates the divides between social classes and groups amongst young people, I think she fails to examine another group that is impacted by this-baby boomers and those born during the…
“Public is the New Private”–If Not Now, Soon
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
The “Good Play Project’s” commentary cites the four characteristics (mentioned in boyd’s article on social networking) of NDM that make privacy issues so challenging: persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audience. The argument put forth is that online, especially among younger…
Finding an Identity “the Hard Way”
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
In high-school, I never had internet. There was no Facebook, no MySpace, no Second Life for me. I had to create my identity “the hard way” (this is probably what I’ll tell my kids someday instead of “I had to…
Perception, Misconception, Deception
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
“Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project” argues that five key issues are at stake in the new media, including identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation. While all issues contain…
Follow the “Rhetoric” Road
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
Computer literacy entails more than sitting a student in front of a computer. It entails more than turning the machine on and viewing Facebook or checking email…or even, typing a word document. I agree with Stuart A. Selber in “Reimagining Computer…
Technological Agency
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
“The iPhone… is sterile. Rather than a platform that invites innovation, the iPhone comes preprogrammed. So too with the Internet,…designed to accept any contribution that followed a basic set of rules.” Both, “tethered to a network of control.” The preceding…
Social Bookmarking tools
by aarias1 • • 0 Comments
Aaron Arias English 5010 Dr. Devries Fall 2007 Social Bookmarking tools Computers are a way of life in the educational setting, unfortunately there a too few teachers who can successfully integrate computer technology effectively in the classroom (1). What Selber…
Internet Freedom
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
In Zittrain’s book, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It” the author looks at the internet from a global perspective. The chapter I enjoyed reading that gave startling clarity as to where the internet could be headed…
English Teachers Unite: Making Our Voices Heard in the Technology Debate
by chayden • • 0 Comments
After digesting the interview from Rheingold and reading Selber’s “Reimagining Computer Literacy”, it has become abudantly clear that English teachers need to take a leading role in the manufacturing of expectations and standards of literacy in the 21st Century. Postman’s words seem to…