What is significant is that kids are able to create and sustain new private social worlds through the use of messaging and blogging, worlds that are separate from, yet overlapping with, institutions such as family and school. Emerging kids’ cultures encompass, and perhaps predict, new definitions of public and private space that sometimes transcend the boundaries that govern adult life – age and sex, institutional rules, national boundaries, and so forth.
As educators this has made our task slightly more difficult. To properly educate our student we must be able to understand the world with which they are living in. That is easy enough when we are talking about our current world, but when we examine the life of our students “additional worlds” – such as social networks and through other forms of technology it becomes difficult to truly understand what our students are being exposed to, as these worlds are basically “private”. On the contrary to making our lives more difficult this opens a new way of education our students. We can use these forms of technology that have grasped our students and apply them in education ways to gain the child interests and create a safe and exciting learning environment or a learning world.
Some software encourages innovative participation in extending design and experience, or teaches cognitive skills through software and media design activities.
I chose this quote as it pertains to my area of concentration. Through my classes as a Business Education Teacher – I have access to multitudes of technology and try to incorporate as much as possible in each lesson. I like to teach the students how to use the technology and test them through an application process in where the product the create serves as their test, or evaluation of skills learned. – Cognitive Skill
The mobile phone and the Internet are changing the scale and scope of kids’ worlds -- from small local face-to-face relations to potentially very large technology-mediated social networks that can cross many social boundaries, including age, class and race.
I find this quote to be very important as it obtains to social relationships, which play a crucial role in student’s development and personality. Students today tend to use technology as a shield. For instance kid’s will now bully each other through the internet, social networks, and text messaging, students will now discuss important matters with friends through these multitudes as well. The horrifying result of this interaction is the results during adult hood, when the kid (now an adult) is unable to handle face-to-face confrontation or interactions in the work place – usually these adults will tend to hide behind e-mail communications. While these new advances are great and I strongly encourage them, I believe there needs to be an equal balance between face-to-face communication and technological communication.
