Summary post for CFT #4

This was a pleasure to be able to read the posts from arvind grover or 21 apples as he likes to be called. The two post I commented on was the article "Bullying" has little resonance with teenagers, and the second article was "Social media revolution 2" and was inspired by the You Tube Video of Did you know 2.0. The author was a very enciteful individual having grown up in Western Pennsylvania.

The first article I read was done by Danah Boyd and was about the troubles that teenagers go through. This article mainly stated how teenagers do not see picking on each other as bullying. She also stated that the kids do this as a way to seek attention and stir up drama. She goes on to say how teenagers tell her, that what they do is normal and that this is going on in their own home environments. She belives that until young people stop getting praise for negative acts of social validation little will change concerning this behavior.

I thought this was a very lovely article and I had never thought of bullying as a way to get attention. Now all the things I saw in high school begin to make much more sense. I would like to thank Mr. grover for showing us this enciteful article on a critical issue that is facing teenagers today.

The last video was a basic remake of the You Tube video "Did You Know 2.0" and covered things from Face Book topping Google for traffic on the internet every week to if Face Book was a country it would be the worlds third largest. Man that is insane when I sit back and think about it. This video also stated that You Tube is the worlds second largest search engine that's crazy. After watching this video I was even more impressed with the technology that we are doing and working with in EDM310. This use of the social internet will be the most important thing that we as teachers will do. We must also remember that this is not only for us, but for the children that will depend on us for this information. This work has been fun and I have enjoyed commenting on all these teachers and I would like to thank Dr. Strange for the wonderful articles and videos that he has shown us over this fall 2010 semester.