Questions for Interviewing a young person:
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?
1) MacBook/ iPad/ iPhone
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
Analysis:
Hanging Out: How did your young person's use of computers reflect friendship driven practices and facilitate social interaction between their peers? Give concrete examples.
The only thing mentioned in the interview that is a concrete example would be social media. This is not specific, but I know she uses snapchat, facebook, and I'm pretty sure twitter and instagram.
Messing Around: How did your young person's use of computers provide them with informal learning opportunities to develop tech savvy skill sets? Give concrete examples.
The biggest thing that lead to informal learning opportunities would be research on the internet and youtube. Netflix could provide learning opportunities if she watched a documentary, but I know she doesn't watch them.
Geeking Out: Has your young person developed a particular interest or highly specialized skill sets as a result of their use of computers at home and school? Describe?
Sarah has not developed a particular interest or highly specialized skill set as a result of their computer use. She mostly uses it for Netflix and avoids it otherwise. She has developed some researching skills, but I wouldn't put that under either category.
Schooling: Does your young person talk about use of traditional literacy practices like using correct spelling vs text messaging lingo? Reading books over use of the computer? Writing in traditional genres like poetry or essays? Conducting research for personal or school related purposes?
She talks briefly on the school related computer use. She states that computer use for school has always been a problem for her, except for typing and researching.
Here is an article that has fabulous ideas for using social media in the Science classroom:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/education/2014/08/how-social-media-can-support-science-and-digital-literacy/
You could also consider using letting students make a scientific record of a classroom experiment or school science fair. Science experiments are a blast, and so are science fair projects! Make the process even more fun by sharing photos and videos on Instagram. - See more at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/instagram-classroom-student-activity-ideas.shtml#sthash.os5HcUTU.dpuf
Guide to using Twitter in your Teaching Practice:
http://blogs.kqed.org/education/how-to-use-twitter-in-your-teaching-practice/