This assignment was foreign to me, insofar, I have never been to MySpace, You Tube, or Flickr site before now! What I can tell you is the more I learn in this class, I realize the less I knew before! This assignment was new, informative, and interesting. I'm experiencing this for the first time and really enjoying what I am learning! I selected Hillary Rodham Clinton! I visited quite a few different sites, each with its own perspective(s) on Hillary. Obviously, her official website portrays a positive view of her promise in presidential office. There are many video clips, newspaper articles, pictures of on her political campaign. While on MySpace and You Tube there were a vast amount of both positive and negative video clips, articles, and blogs! During one speech, Hillary announces, "I'm in and I'm in to win" vowing to help struggling middle class and addressing our role to the damage to the environment and what must be done. It was interesting to read/view the different perspectives and insights to be heard.
From a secondary social studies teacher perspective, I can see the benefits of using these Internet sites to bring new perspectives and ways of teaching social studies to a class. It is important to have students think critically for themselves. As educators don't we want our students to be able to distinguish between relevant and non relevant information. Be able to come to an informed decision on their own?! However, one technical difficulty, most of these mentioned websites our school blocks. Our school district does not allow students nor teachers to access these sites, therefore, making it momentarily impossible. Just like politics, who knows what future changes lay ahead for my district! I might be pleasantly surprised!
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Prensky uses an analogy of how students are the digital natives and teachers are "digital immigrants" to describe the generation/knowledge gap separating the two. This commentary describes Prensky's analogy in more detail - http://technologysource.org/article/digital_natives_digital_immigrants/
Most of the sites that we looked at are blocked. Alan November talks about how the most popular youth websites/tools are blocked by schools (youtube, myspace, itunes, etc.) and how important it is for schools to figure out how these very engaging tools can support classroom learning.
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