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Learning It From the Streets:Learning It From the Streets:Moving New Media into the ClassroomMoving New Media into the Classroom

Cristina FossOld Dominion University

Eng 894: Seminar in New MediaDr. Kathie Gossett

Classroom ConvergenceClassroom Convergence“As conceived by these canons, the body was first of alla strictly completed, finished product. Furthermore, itwas isolated, alone, fenced off from all other bodies…The individual body was presented apart from itsrelation to the ancestral body of the people”(Bakhtin, 1984, p. 29).

Digital NativesDigital Natives• Children age 13 to 17 use digital media 3.5

hours a day • Use more than one digital text at a time

Shifting AccessShifting Access“The rapid response, multimedia, anytime-anywhere

networked world that these students inhabit has shaped their worldview, their reaction times, and how they learn” (Oblinger & Hawkins, 2005 p. 12).

Lack of EngagementLack of Engagement“In fact, they find school

much less interesting than the myriad devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks” (Prensky, 2005, p. 64).

Convergence CultureConvergence Culture

Habits of MindHabits of Mind• Persisting • Creating, imagining, innovating • Thinking flexibly • Responding with wonderment and awe • Taking responsible risks • Striving for accuracy • Listening with empathy • Applying past knowledge to new situations • Remaining open to continuous learning • Thinking interdependently

(Costa & Kallick 2000)

Affinity SpacesAffinity Spaces“More and more, educators are coming to valuethe learning that occurs in these informal andrecreational spaces” (Jenkins, 2006, p. 185).

Classroom ConvergenceClassroom ConvergenceHow can we put new media

to work in our classrooms?

New Media ResponseNew Media Response“On the one hand these new

media are seen to have enormous positive potential, particularly for learning; while on the other, they are frequently seen to be harmful to those perceived to be at most risk” (Buckingham, 2002, p. 77).

Magical TechnologyMagical Technology“Never trust anything that can think

for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain” (Rowling, 1999, 194).

Unknowable DangerUnknowable Danger“That invisible meeting

spot where the impressionable encounter the unknowable“

(Buechner, 2000, p. 38).

Invisible StrangerInvisible Stranger"I suppose the real reason

Ginny Weasley's like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger“

(Rowling, 1999, p. 309).

Invisible StrangerInvisible Stranger

ProtectionismProtectionism“A traditional ‘protectionist’ approach [that] would attempt to `inoculate’ young people against the effects of media addiction and manipulation by cultivating a taste for book literacy and high culture… by denigrating all forms of media and computer culture” (Kellner, 2002, p. 93)

Grotesque BodyGrotesque BodyThe grotesque body “is not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits” (Bakhtin, 1984, p. 26).

Bodily CanonsBodily CanonsGrotesque

• Unfinished• Growing• Limitless• Active• Collective

Classical• Finished• Static• Contained• Passive• Individual

Grotesque MediaGrotesque Media•How can we control this

body?•How can we contain it?

RenewalRenewal “Electric technology is reshaping and

restructuring patters of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted” (McLuhan, 2001, p. 8).

ExpansiveExpansive “In the age of media

convergence, consumer participation has emerged as the central conceptual problem: traditional gatekeepers seek to hold on to their control of culture content” (Jenkins, 2006, 215).

Anti-ConvergenceAnti-Convergence“There is a world of difference between the

modern home environment of the integrated electric information and the classroom. Today’s television child… is bewildered when he enters the nineteenth-century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules” (McLuhan, 2001, p. 18).

TransitionTransition• How then can we

incorporate new media into the school institution?

• How can we meet the needs of students

Technological DeterminismTechnological Determinism“Physical access to technology should not necessarily

be equated with levels of use” (Buckingham, 2002, p. 79).

Opening SpaceOpening Space“It is not clear that the success of

affinity spaces can be duplicated by simply incorporating similar activities into the classroom. Schools impose a fixed leadership hierarchy (including very different roles for adults and teens)” (Jenkins, 2006, p. 193).

rev o lu tion⋅ ⋅ ⋅an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough

replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.

RevolutionRevolution“The technological revolution of the present era makes possible the radical reconstruction and restructuring of education and society argued for in the progressive era by Dewey and in the 1960s and 1970s by Ivan Illich, Paolo Freire and others who sought radical educational and social reform” (Kellner, 2002, p. 91).

New Media LiteracyNew Media Literacy“Simply providing children with information is

not enough: we have to enable them to develop the intellectual and cultural competencies that are required to select, interpret, and utilize it” (Buckner, 2002, p. 86).

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