Week 1 – EDUC 342: Child Development & New Technologies https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu Thu, 21 Jan 2016 04:51:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 Week 2 Discussion https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/week-1-discussion-megan/ https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/week-1-discussion-megan/#respond Thu, 14 Jan 2016 05:19:41 +0000 http://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/?p=991 Alper mentions the unproductive generalization of today’s children as “iKids” or “digital natives”.  She claims these assumptions ignore a few core problems in the way today’s children must navigate new media literacy. First, the “transparency problem” or “the challenges young people face in learning to see clearly the ways that media shape perceptions of the world.” Second, the “ethics challenge” or “the breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization that might prepare young people for their increasingly public roles as media makers.”

I found these two concepts extremely fascinating. As part of the “digital natives” generation, I am eager to become more self-reflective about these challenges and how I am actively working to remedy them. I would love to further explore these ideas: What are concrete ways in which these challenges manifest themselves in our daily technology use?

]]> https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/week-1-discussion-megan/feed/ 0 Week 1 Discussion – Lisa J https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/week-1-discussion-lisa-j/ https://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/week-1-discussion-lisa-j/#respond Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:03:15 +0000 http://ed342.gse.stanford.edu/?p=964 One line from the Rogoff reading (Children’s Development of Cultural Repertoires…) particularly stuck out to me:

“Tacit, routine expectations of everyday life are likely to be among the most powerful cultural experiences – especially because they are expected and unexamined by most participants” (Rogoff, p. 491). This made me ponder what the implicit social cues we are sending to children when adults are constantly on their phones (taking photos, checking email, posting to social media). Even if parents ensure that they have placed media/technology restrictions on their child, what values and scripts are they signaling to their children when they are constantly engaged with their devices?

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