Sidebar to my post below, "Literacy for a digital age" In talks he gives, media professor Henry Jenkins, often refers to the advice Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, gets from his Uncle Ben: "With great power comes great responsibility." But Dr. Jenkins, a professor at the University of Southern California, isn't only creating a parallel between young Spiderman's new-found super-powers and … [Read more...] about A suspension of disbelief needed
Archives for September 2012
Literacy for a digital age: Transliteracy or what?
Digital literacy educator Diana Graber is crowdsourcing a media literacy curriculum for 8th-graders at Journey School in southern California. It's Year 3 of the school's CyberCivics program that Diana's building, she writes in the CyberWise blog. Reading her resource-rich post got me thinking about all I've learned about digital literacy, media literacy, and social literacy since I first heard … [Read more...] about Literacy for a digital age: Transliteracy or what?
Important for safety: ‘It Can Wait!’
There seems to be something automatic about responding immediately when a text comes in. Maybe it's because a text is just part of a conversation. But whatever that reflex is, it needs an override when we're driving – an override either in the software between our ears or some "I'm not available right now" software in our phones. AT&T has an app for that called "DriveMode" that sends a text … [Read more...] about Important for safety: ‘It Can Wait!’
Majority of US teens’ mobiles are smartphones
It's as if the two just-released studies – from Nielsen and the Pew Internet Project – about US smartphone use were timed to Apple's unveiling of the iPhone 5 (a quick list of what's new about it at the New York Times) this week. Nielsen says that, not only do most of US cellphone owners use smartphones, but now the majority of teen cellphone owners in the US have them – a higher percentage of … [Read more...] about Majority of US teens’ mobiles are smartphones
The power of online community at a sad time
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tribute to Sean Smith – dad, online gamer, and Benghazi-based State Department computer expert – was "nothing compared to the memorials that were offered up by many of the 400,000 paying subscribers" of the space fantasy game EVE Online," Tri-CityHerald.com reports. It said the memorials "flooded social media and gaming [discussion] boards [and] many gamers … [Read more...] about The power of online community at a sad time