Curr501: Digital Media Literacy

I really enjoyed this TED talk by Dr. Michael Wesch. I even got a little bit emotional when watching it.  Dr. Wesch describes what we as youth workers and educators may have come across at one point or another - jaded students. We ourselves may even have felt like this as well. We look for the ways to make it to the end with the least amount of damage of difficulty. We go through the motions, we want teachers to tell us what exactly they need from us to give us a grade, we become fatigued, we get discouraged and feel defeated when we fail. But what if we see failure as an opportunity to continue to try? What if we don’t get told “no” but instead get told “not yet”? What if we detach a person from a grade? These are the questions Dr. Wesch asks himself and explores in his own classroom.  As I was watching this TED talk I instantly recognized a very very important component that Dr. Wesch practices as he’s exploring these ideas and that is care . Care is an essential part of lea...

  Both Prensky, and Boyd, expressed ideas of young people’s ability and creativity in relation to technology and their education. I found that they both bring strong points to this argument of “Digital Native” vs “Digital Immigrant.” Pensky pointed out this idea of an old digital age and new digital age, or as he calls it “web 1.0” and “web 2.0.” Older individuals had become proficient and may have grown up with the internet that was built for reading, owning, individual user use, and consuming content - Web 1.0. Whereas younger people now have become proficient and have grown up with the internet that was built for writing, communities, sharing, and producing content - web 2.0. Couldn’t it be that these different age groups could be more knowledgeable and well versed in respect to the internet that is or was more prevalent in their experience? For example, an younger individual would know what “the cloud” is, but doesn’t know that the “save” icon on is a floppy disk - because they...

 Hello All! My name is Genevieve Medina, I am 23 years old, born and raised in Providence, RI. I graduated from Rhode Island College with my bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2020. I returned to RIC this past fall as a Youth Development master's student. This coming month I will be wrapping up my year of service as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with Providence College. I hope to be working with young people in the education space again very very soon!  One could argue I watch too much tv, so here's a list of some of my favorite shows: The Office, Bob's Burgers, The Handmaid's Tale, New Girl, Black-ish, anything Disney, The Bachelor franchise. I play Animal Crossing because its like my own little world I escape to sometimes.  Also shout-out to all the Bad Bunny fans in this class. I'm pretty proud of my Spotify library - I listen to lots of R&B, Hip-Hop/Rap, Reggaeton, Indie, Banda/Ranchera, Rock, Country. Send me your music recommendations :)  I also have list...