Twitter Book Club: S. Craig Watkins (2009) The Young & The Digital - Chapter 2

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   anderscj "But DOPA was more than anti-MySpace; it was, in many respects, anti-Web 2.0. And that, more than anything, g (cont) http://tl.gd/2qo7da 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "But the ALA's greatest fear was how the sponsors of DOPA, in the rush to vilify social media, glossed over (cont) http://tl.gd/2qo9g4 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "we teach children to beware of strangers, their environment, and suspicious behavior. DOPA threatened to (cont) http://tl.gd/2qobg4 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "The show (To Catch A Predator) typified and even fed the public panic that made social-network sites, in the (cont) http://tl.gd/2qodpu 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "Social-network sites, much to the chagrin of educators, are a pervasive presence in the lives of schools." Watkins 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj " As far back as the late 1990s, when policy advocates, politicians, and researchers were focusing on the (cont) http://tl.gd/2qp0qs 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "In addition to lacking access to broadband at home, youth from low-income households, importantly, lack (cont) http://tl.gd/2qppl9 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj "poor schools rarely if ever benefit from the social capital found in more affluent schools. Social capital (cont) http://tl.gd/2qptbv 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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   anderscj Parents looking at their kid's soc ntwk profile, "are not concerned about cyberpredators or the content (cont) http://tl.gd/2qq10r 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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    anderscj "The incessant desire to control and use their bodies as a source of pleasure and personal expression is a (cont) http://tl.gd/2qqavb 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator
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    anderscj "The ubiquity of digital cameras and life-sharing media highlights how we have become our own paparazzi..." Watkins 30 Jul 2010 from Twittelator

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In many ways this chapter of Watkins' book was like reading a personal history of the past couple years. Being one of those teachers who jumped into the social networking world with my students before it became viewed as dangerous by the powers that be I was on the forefront of a lot of these issues and I have battle scars to prove it. This chapter reads like a history book but it is all stuff that is still new enough that the history is still being written.

What I did find enlightening in this chapter was the point he makes about the gap in resources for informal learning between rich and poor schools and how schools in more privileged areas benefit from a social capital not available to poor schools. This is critical and it is also a difficult challenge. We can wire our schools, provide equipment, and give children in our poor schools everything available to those in wealthy schools and more and there will still be a gap.