For this interview I sent these questions to my cousin Sarah who is 18 and has just graduated High School in Kentucky.
Ask your young person to choose a pseudonym for you to use in the writing of your case.
1) Do you have a computer /iPod/MPC playerWii/ ect....?
2) What kinds of things do you use the computer for?
3) What is your favorite thing to do on the computer?
4) How did you learn to do that?
5) What are some other things you use the computer for?
6) What is your favorite game? Why?
7) Do you know other people who do this?
8) How do you use the computer at school?
9) How would you like to use the computer at school?
10) Do you think teachers would let you use the computer to do those things? Why? Why not?
Anything else you would like to tell me?
2) Research/ typing papers/ other homework/ listen to music/ YouTube/ online shopping/ watch Netflix/ email/ blackboard/ communicate with others/ photos/ social media
3)Netflix
4)self explanatory
5)already listed all of it
6)I don't play it anymore but sims because I got to create people and houses
7) lol no
8.) I don't
9) ...
10) I hate online classes and homework and test... Computers aren't always reliable- some times the website doesn't want to work or you don't put the answer in the way the computer wants and it counts it all wrong. Or you have to send your paper into your professor and your email decides not to work. I honestly hate computers for school reason except research and typing.
Title: computer this or computer that
Connections to Course Text
"And yet, in many classrooms these devices and the texts produced with them are still perceived to be irrelevant, and even dangerous, in relation to children’s learning and their development of powerful practices with text."
"We believe that new teachers must be prepared to teach in schools that are embedded in a world where technologies, particularly portable digital technologies, are changing the ways in which we make meanings and engage with each other."
"It is time our classrooms became places where digital and print literacies come together to allow children opportunities to develop the skills and attitudes they will need to navigate complex urban sites and social forms."
"Drawing on classroom research, she argues learners require guidance in reading multimodal texts and that we need to ‘redefine the work of the reader’ (Jewitt, 2005, p. 329)."
Title: computer this or computer that
Connections to Course Text
"And yet, in many classrooms these devices and the texts produced with them are still perceived to be irrelevant, and even dangerous, in relation to children’s learning and their development of powerful practices with text."
"We believe that new teachers must be prepared to teach in schools that are embedded in a world where technologies, particularly portable digital technologies, are changing the ways in which we make meanings and engage with each other."
"It is time our classrooms became places where digital and print literacies come together to allow children opportunities to develop the skills and attitudes they will need to navigate complex urban sites and social forms."
"Drawing on classroom research, she argues learners require guidance in reading multimodal texts and that we need to ‘redefine the work of the reader’ (Jewitt, 2005, p. 329)."
In your interview I really liked the response your interviewer added saying that she hated online classes, homework and tests because they are not always reliable. I have to agree. This whole online class I have been a little afraid I won't make deadlines because my internet is not reliable where I live which can put me in a bind.
ReplyDeleteTo an extent, Sarah, a supposed digital native because of her age, sounds much more like a digital immigrant or a technoskeptic based on her responses concerning computers and classrooms. It sounds like perhaps she has had some bad experiences, or that technology has been used merely to replace the old technology; another form of administration of information, rather than an enhancement to her learning environment. The only game that she mentions is Sims, and cited that she liked to create houses and characters. If she’d had the opportunity in class to create digital content or play games, would it have had an influence toward her attitudes on technology in the classroom?
ReplyDeleteSean, Your Digital Native surprised me. A Mac user and did not like computers?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Tiffany based on her replies to your questions. It sounds like Sarah has had some bad experiences and/or no opportunities to use technology other than for what she has had to in school for research and typing.
I wonder though if her lack of interest with technology has anything to do with possibly being frustrated with the process of learning how to use technology or simply just making the connection. Having to go from one program to another then to another to do something else. I say this because I met someone like Sarah and we were working on powerpoint, she did not like having to research images in google, nor did she like having to go onto Youtube to gather what she needed she wanted everything to come from PP.
Her reply was it was to much work, boring and took to much time.