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Excerpt from a series of three posts by Cathy Davidson:
"This is the last in a three-part “end of term” series of blog posts on “Doing Better by Gen Y.” In the first post, one of my students spoke about the paucity of opportunities to actually think critically about the role of digital media in society, in learning, in global relations, in local and global inequalities, and in the workplace. In the second post, “What Are Digital Literacies: Let’s Ask the Students,” both of my classes, “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” and “Twenty-First Century Literacies,” helped us understand what about my peer-led, peer-assessed, peer-designed multimedia classes was different and new and useful to their lives. They had never been asked that question before, it turned out. They all noted that they use Instructional Technology (IT) in lots of their classes. Since a number of my students are engineers or computer scientists, they often make technology—doing everything from programming (almost all have some programming background) to creating AI robots. But even the next-generation technology makers aren’t thinking about what they are doing in a critical way...."
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