An important resource for those in early childhood to read.
NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center Release New Guidance on the Use of Media and Interactive Technology in Early Childhood Programs
What if, instead, in ten years those teens-now-adults used those tweets and their lingering presence in search results as a teachable moment?
Let’s promote the idea that those embarrassing tweets, or anyone’s embarrassing digital dirt, can be used to validate identity change and growth.
we are equally celebrating the cultural norm that expects perfection, normalization, and unchanging behavior. What if more people wore past identities more proudly? We could erode the norm of identity consistency, a norm no one lives up to anyways, and embrace change and growth for its own sake
it will encourage an understanding of identity as more fluid. This re-understanding might be more tolerant of the non-normal and accepting of change and difference.
hat a person isn’t just what one is but a non-linear process of becoming rife with starts and stops and wrong turns may grow to be increasingly obvious.
The first video is very creative! Beyond that, this could be a good resource for those looking to further understand what all the fuss over Twitter is about in education and how to get started using and benefitting from Twitter in a meaningful way.
physical spaces in all states of maintenance are by necessity temporal spaces; we orient
Time is a background-level context that we assume is there.
there are some spaces – and indeed, some object – that we perceive as more temporally-laden than others, regardless of whether or not those spaces and objects are in a state of ruin
Books are another object that we tend to perceive as temporally-laden
books have time, and the reasons for this have a tremendous amount to do with our cultural history of books and what books are.
Books exist within these spaces; books are also of these spaces. Contemporary mass-market paperbacks aside, the default quintessential Book is old, hard-bound, possibly large and heavy, frequently dusty
It took a lot of time to make books, and books themselves contained a lot of time within them as part of their content. Though none of the books we read now are produced in that way, the past of books still works to shape our present imagining of them.
When we hold an ereader, we are aware – if only subconsciously – that time is not there in the same way that it is with a dead tree book. It doesn’t connect to all the temporally-laden ideas of Bookness that we carry around in our collective cultural memory.