Week 5: BLOG #1Youth and Tensions in Education -Fostering Digital Innovation or Digital Narcissism?

TRIANGLE:
In the reading, Getting over the Slump, it focuses on academic performance, digital media and the challenges that are associated with in it. Many of the highs school students are not learning the skills that they are required. Their performance has changed in the past years. Academic performance varies among children. For instance, fourth-graders can decode, but many of them cannot read to learn because they are unable to negotiate the language and its content. According to the reading, Getting over the Slump, kids are already attracted to digital games and anything that is has digital media. Many times digital media can become effective when its combined with teaching. This will allow teacher to begin to study different trajectories toward mastery by giving students constant feedback based on this knowledge, and then assess learners in terms of trajectories. Many children are being mentored at their homes while other only learn in school. This is a huge disadvantage to students that live in a home where no mentoring is available. Many students today, especially from low-income families, do not get early language preparation for schooling The other gap is a newer emerging one, which is connected to the skills in our rapidly changing world. It is a digital gap, between those students who can leverage technical skills and technological knowledge. These challenges will always persist.

SQUARE
In the video, Interview with Mark Bauerlein, I agree that teenagers do not care as much about literature as what they did before. This is because teenagers are more into social network and this gives them less time to study. Many teenagers like to have friends and have fun, but this is harming them as a whole because they are in their own world. As Mark states, friends are not going to help you learn your vocabulary. This is true but, technology has shaped teenagers in a different way.

CIRCLE
It is interesting to know that technology is changing the world around us. In the video, Special Reports, many believe that teenagers do not care about school as much as they did before. It is interesting that social network has been more important than school. How can teenagers learn the importance of being more concentrated in school and their career instead, of their computer and cell phones?