…talk about the social ills of my country and how the minority elite is trying to safeguard their privileged position in the society by invoking the rubber-stamped secularist and democratic legacy and of course the wrath of the army. They are doing this at the expense of the oppressed, poor, disadvantaged, and uneducated (purposely kept [...]
This post is a response to Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys by Nancy Lopez. I personalized the issues she cites in that book of racialized and gendered lived exerperiences of second generation immigrant youth.
The gendering practice that was eloquently reported by Lopez is not unique. What makes this study compelling to read are the political overtones mixed with racial practices that are observed [...]
Myers, J., & Beach, R. (2001). Hypermedia authoring as critical literacy. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 44(6), 538-546.
This week’s reading reminds me of the multifarious nature of knowledge and of course the role that social milieu plays in its construction—I am aware that there are many who have wrestled with the epistemological questions of [...]
The New York Times featured an interesting article today (April 9, 07) on the beginnings of a set of regulations for mitigating the impoliteness exerted by anonymous blog readers. It has already stirred up debates of right to freedom of speech and censorship. The article is by Brad Stone.
We know that new technologies are quickly becoming the norm for people of all ages in the Information Age. They are used in schools to teach reading (e.g., Starfall.com) or they are used by young adults to create personal space (e.g., myspace.com) to express themselves and interact with others.
There is an increasing trend in [...]
Presentation Topic/Idea: Reading Across Media; How Students Use Newer Technologies for Academic & Individual Purposes
Movie Directors: Omer Ari & Nicole Hughes
Free Music: Music will be used for our intro and outro. We will use a clip of children’s music and a clip representative of older children (teenagers/young adults) before and after the narration.
Free Image: [...]
Reading these articles for today, I could not help myself getting inspired: I will go ahead and do a screencast for a software program that I used to design a listening span task for my Psychology professor. She has other than me 6-7 more student assistants who have been get a hang of the program [...]
Purpose:
What online tools are available in GSU to help new students’ orientation? How do online social networks impact the socialization patterns of freshman students in this school?
Every year thousands of students join the student body at GSU, a large metropolitan unviersity boasting an ever-expanding campus in the middle of downtown Atlanta–the school has recently bought [...]
How much has changed since Brown vs. Board of Education? Watch A Girl Like Me by Kiri Davis, who has reconducted the famous Clark study about 50 years later–Clark study contributed greatly to making the case that Segregated but Equal schools actually did much damage to Black students’ self-image.
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/index.php?id=2
Below is a link to a nice thought-provoking video clip by an assistant professor from Kansas State University. His clip touches on issues we have been talking about in the class i.e., rhetoric, authorship, copyright, ethics, etc. Take a look! Worth your time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
