Week 10 Reading and Discussion

1. How has social media changed reading and writing processes in the digital age?

Social media has changed reading and writing processes in the digital age because people that participate in on different social media sites leave feedback after reading something. Thus there are more people editing and reviewing work than before.

2. Explain "cosmopolitan practice" in relation to digital literacy and it means for learning in school.

The "cosmopolitan practice" that the authors define is that there is a growing understanding between cultures and languages of how to interact digitally. The school experience becomes more universal when classrooms across traditional boundaries can interact with each other.

3. How did the cosmopolitan conversation video challenge support critical media literacy?

The cosmopolitan conversation video challenge supports critical media literacy because students had to make judgments on the videos of two different cultures.

4. How does this quote from the text, "In this digital age, traditional content creation such as book reports, unit projects and essays, cannot be merely digitized and regulated to the end of the unit as capstone demonstrations of content mastery," make you think about how digital technologies should be used to support learning in school?

I believe that digital technologies should be used to support learning in school because nearly all office work in the digital age is produced on PCs. Therefore, I think that working with system that the student will ultimately be using in their professional career is good practice.

5. How do the digital stories you watch this week support the concept of cosmopolitanism?

The digital stories I watched this week support the concept of cosmopolitanism because I was able to relate in many ways to the stories that I watched. People have many common experiences and reactions to them.

6.  In a blog posting, copy and paste a quote from the text that have moved you in some way with a link.

I agree with the authors thoughts on cosmopolitan digital experiences: "With colleagues and participants from India, South Africa, Norway, Great Britain and Australia, as well as U.S. sites in California and New Jersey, they described how youthful exchanges on this network are mediated through  a developing cosmopolitan ethic - a growing common understanding of how to effectively interact and exchange meanings and artifacts across linguistic, worldview and geographic boundaries." (Avila, 64) The standards of digital behavior become drawn along the lines of the participants on a social media platform. Each entry builds upon the same assumptions that the prior work on the platform defines either formally or informally. I did an internet search and found this website about this subject: http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2011/cosmopolitan-digital-experience/ It builds upon the idea of  cosmopolitan digital experiences for the media at large.



Reference:

Avila, JuliAnna, Pandya, Jessica Zacher.(2013)Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis. Peter Lang
     Publishing: New York, New York.