Glossary
Remixing: The process of taking samples from preexisting materials to combine them into new forms.
Mashup: A derivative work consisting of two or more pieces of media conjoined together, such as a video clip with an unrelated soundtrack.
Sources: RemixTheory.net, Wiktionary.org
Discussion Questions
1. Hanging Out: What social skills are kids practicing with today's digital tools? Is this really new? What is the learning value in these activities?
2. Messing Around: How can you support kids interest in using digital tools for collaboration and creativity?
3. Geeking Out: What role should adults play as kids use digital media for self-directed learning? How can we leverage the deep knowledge that kids are acquiring on their own?
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1. Dr. Mimi Ito has
1. Dr. Mimi Ito has eloquently shared with us the findings of a three year study of how kids use the multi-media outside the school or classroom structure. As an anthropologist, her study focused on the social aspect of the impact of media technology on the kids parents and the community in general. Hanging out with friends in no longer a localized event that parents used to do. It is now a highly mobile relationship which knows no distance and no boundaries. Even though the kid may be romanticizing with a kid in the other side of the globe. he is able to keep up with as many of them as could log into "MySpace," at the same time. Unimaginable to parents who are digital immigrants! That is what makes it new. In the interest of the kids ability to participate in the cultural changes that are the results of fast moving technological innovations, digital learning is definitely taking place during such hanging outs. the adults have to recognize that this "Romeo and Juliet thing" is actually helping to prepare the kids for the future in which they will find themselves.
2. Yes, as a parent I have to in order to eliminate unwanted complications in my relationship with my kids. As a good role model and a responsible parent I should respect their privacy. By collaborating with the kids we will be able to direct them to more 'ethical' use of the media to their benefit. As educators and parents we should engage them and not enrage them, by viewing their curiosity as an attempt to gain rigor, relevance and relationship, as they explore the media.
3. We as adults should encourage the kids to use media technology for self-directed learning, to enable them study what they feel most passionate about. By so doing we would be helping them to develop the capacity for being creative in specialized interests of their own. We should not be afraid or fell intimidated because the kids are more adept and knowledgeable than us in this ever changing world of cyberspace. We must realize that these kids are born into the digital age, and it is our duty to encourage them to be digitally literate, by using Blogs,wikis,google, webquests, virtual tours, On-Line Learning, E-Portfolio, etc to teach them, so they can become fluid in media technology.