{"id":463,"date":"2012-06-11T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T00:36:17","slug":"gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-digital-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/06\/11\/gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-digital-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"GS 554 &#8212; Classrooms in Motion: Digital Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion of S. Craig Watkins&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Young_and_the_Digital.html?id=agD-_R0dKPkC\">The Young &amp; The Digital: What the Migration to Social-Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future <\/a><\/em>spawned a number of thematic elements and questions for further discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference between technology as a pedagogical tool or an impressive classroom gimmick.<\/li>\n<li>Fear of teachers being replaced by technology.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching skills versus teaching facts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it the responsibility of educators to teach digital citizenship?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the responsibility of educators to foster digital literacy?<\/li>\n<li>How do the politics of fear manifest themselves in our public education system &#8212; particularly as we navigate the ever-expanding world of technology?<\/li>\n<li>What is your generational perspective in relation to technology?<\/li>\n<li>Does technology contribute to bonding or bridging in your classroom?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a cultural aesthetic at play in our use of technology?<\/li>\n<li>How has the &#8220;digital migration&#8221; that Watkins describes affected community?<\/li>\n<li>What is community?<\/li>\n<li>What do we need from\/give to community?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion of S. Craig Watkins&#8217;s The Young &amp; The Digital: What the Migration to Social-Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future spawned a number of thematic elements and questions for further discussion. Themes: The difference between technology as a pedagogical tool or an impressive classroom gimmick. Fear of teachers being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/06\/11\/gs-554-classrooms-in-motion-digital-youth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GS 554 &#8212; Classrooms in Motion: Digital Youth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-a","category-gs554","category-other","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-7t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}