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Kevin's Meandering Mind | #DigiWriMo: Too Much Consuming, Not Enough Creating - 5 views

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  • ONLY THREE PERCENT OF TEENS REPORT CREATING THINGS WITH THEIR TECHNOLOGY.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 12 Nov 15
       
      how is this different than the case for any other types of media? Why should it be any different?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 13 Nov 15
       
      I think it is different in that the shift of access to technology (even though access is another issue altogether) has students on screens for 9 hours a day or something. Companies want them to be passive eyeballs. I want them to be active creators. Unlike television or radio, where the medium forces us into passive roles, mobile apps and websites can potential give them the tools to make their own content, and engage in the world as active participants.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
      Wonder how many students have ever been active creators.  How are we defining these creators?  How have they been defined in the past?
  • putting tools of making and creating into the hands of students. We need to empower agency.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 12 Nov 15
       
      Agree. I think this is important because it opens up a multitude of new choices of who and what they want to be and how they want to learn and then contribute.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 13 Nov 15
       
      In my experience, this does not happen enough in classrooms, though. So, spaces like CLMOOC and DigiWriMo are helpful for allowing teachers to explore, tinker, play, reflect ... if they come along for the ride.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
       I think this is about curiosity and imagination and passion.  We move too quickly to the transactive, toward the 'let's cover the curriculum", to the "I need a product here people that covers my ass"  
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  • passive recipients of information
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 12 Nov 15
       
      does being a creator of something imply "passivity" as a consumer? Life is full of areas of creation and production that others consume. Where there is a creator there is usually a consumer.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
      I am not against being a consumer or as Tofler put it a 'prosumer' 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
      Prosumer
  • including targeted advertising based on technology habits)
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 12 Nov 15
       
      I agree that they need to learn how to be discerning and critical of all kinds of information they receive. They should learn to be selective and understand the agendas. How can becoming a creator protect one from bad or agenda laden information? 
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 13 Nov 15
       
      It does not protect us from bad info or political agendas, but making something yourself as a creator does pull the veil back on how something is designed, and how companies and politicians and others leverage the "cool factor" for a message, often invisible to users.
  • Do you consume? Or do you create?
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 12 Nov 15
       
      both. there wouldn't be a need for anyone to create anything if there was no one to consume, except of course if it's something for the creator herself/himself. I think :) then the same person is both creator and consumer.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 13 Nov 15
       
      Yes, and what is your agenda when you create? Is it to create art and discussion and interaction in the public sphere? Of course, a world full of only creators would mean no audience for anyone. (Sounds like an interesting short story idea)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
      I do both
  • I want to discover more ways to engage my students — those 11 year olds growing up in a world in the midst of significant change — as active creators.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
      I have been calling this the "cognitive commons" and is a recognition of the intelligence of our culture. We are touching 11 year olds who are touching parents and grandparents and extended family and other families.  Every bit of which is the cognitive commons.  As such it must be nurtured, guarded and used carefully like any 'common pool resource'
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 15
       
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