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Celeste Arrieta

The Web IS the Platform | Stick in the Sand - 1 views

  • The idea that students are digital natives is a myth
  • they need to be taught to see the web as a learning tool
  • helping student and teachers make sense out of an ever-growing, ever-diversifying web.
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    how to sort web tools by function-research, production, publication, discussion and management-to create a simple, solid framework for helping student and teachers make sense out of an ever-growing, ever-diversifying web.
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    The idea that students are digital natives is a myth they need to be taught to see the web as a learning tool
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    This is a very good resource. Thanks, Barbara!
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    Glad you find our Diigo group useful, Celeste! Hope all is well with you.
Barbara Lindsey

5 Myths About the 'Information Age' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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    Written by a humanities academic. As often is the case, the comments are even more illuminating...
Barbara Lindsey

danah boyd | apophenia » "Real Names" Policies Are an Abuse of Power - 0 views

  • The people who most heavily rely on pseudonyms in online spaces are those who are most marginalized by systems of power. “Real names” policies aren’t empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people. T
  • what many folks failed to notice is that countless black and Latino youth signed up to Facebook using handles. Most people don’t notice what black and Latino youth do online. Likewise, people from outside of the US started signing up to Facebook and using alternate names. Again, no one noticed because names transliterated from Arabic or Malaysian or containing phrases in Portuguese weren’t particularly visible to the real name enforcers. Real names are by no means universal on Facebook, but it’s the importance of real names is a myth that Facebook likes to shill out. And, for the most part, privileged white Americans use their real name on Facebook. So it “looks” right.
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  • If companies like Facebook and Google are actually committed to the safety of its users, they need to take these complaints seriously. Not everyone is safer by giving out their real name. Quite the opposite; many people are far LESS safe when they are identifiable. And those who are least safe are often those who are most vulnerable.
  • Likewise, the issue of reputation must be turned on its head when thinking about marginalized people. Folks point to the issue of people using pseudonyms to obscure their identity and, in theory, “protect” their reputation.
  • The assumption baked into this is that the observer is qualified to actually assess someone’s reputation. All too often, and especially with marginalized people, the observer takes someone out of context and judges them inappropriately based on what they get online.
  • There is no universal context, no matter how many times geeks want to tell you that you can be one person to everyone at every point. But just because people are doing what it takes to be appropriate in different contexts, to protect their safety, and to make certain that they are not judged out of context, doesn’t mean that everyone is a huckster. Rather, people are responsibly and reasonably responding to the structural conditions of these new media. And there’s nothing acceptable about those who are most privileged and powerful telling those who aren’t that it’s OK for their safety to be undermined. And you don’t guarantee safety by stopping people from using pseudonyms, but you do undermine people’s safety by doing so.
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