Documenting the Digital Generation | Ecology of Education - 0 views
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offers a wealth of videos which will be relevant to anyone who wants to better understand the new media literacies, participatory culture, and young people’s online lives, themes which recur here with great frequency.
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First, the site brings together substantive conversations with what they are calling “Big Thinkers.”
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Second, the website offers some vivid and engaging portraits of typical American teens and their relationship to new media technologies and practices.
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Young people’s lives are shown to be conducted across and through a range of different media platforms, rather than, say, identifying one kid as a gamer or another as a social networker. The technologies are shown as supporting a range of different social roles and relationships rather than necessarily directing young people to develop in predetermined directions.