I had assumed that all the laptop-staring, smartphone-glancing students were like my daughter (a college student when I started teaching) and all her friends and the other digital natives I had heard so much about. So I put together an online survey and discovered a wide disparity in my students' web skills. Just because they Facebook, text, or participate in online games doesn't mean that all young people understand rhetorics of blogging or collaborative uses of wikis or building personal learning networks with Twitter.
Meneka Johnson on 23 Jun 10This blogger speaks about social media and how it can lead people to think they have real relationships with people when they don't. It also can lead to poor social skills. Interesting because I recently was watching a reality dating show where a contestant was offended that people did not read his blogs. I'll call that a false sense of "celebrity", lol.