Technology Ownership: U.S. Teens

1. Technology Ownership: U.S. Teens Lenhart, A., Madden, M., MacGill, A.R., Smith, A., (2007, December 19). Teens and Social Media. Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet Studies.

2. Technology Ownership: EDCI 687 N=9

6. EDCI 687

7. 63% of teens go online daily Lenhart, A., Purcell, K., Smith, A., Zickuhr, K. (2010 February, 3). Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens & Young Adults. Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet Studies. 36% - Several times daily 27% - About once a day 26% - Weekly 11% - Less than once a week

8. EDCI 687 “Always” Online 100% - Several times daily 0% - About once a day 0% - Weekly 0% - Less than once a week

9. EDCI 687 - Online Activities 100% Send or Read Email 56% Send Msgs on a Social Network Site (SNS) 22% Comment on a blog 11% Write in my own blog 11% Show content online I created 33% Remix online content

10. EDCI 687 vs. U.S. Teens (12-17) Lenhart, A., Purcell, K., Smith, A., Zickuhr, K. (2010 February, 3). Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens & Young Adults. Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet Studies.

12. EDCI 687 vs. U.S. Teens (12-17) Lenhart, A., Purcell, K., Smith, A., Zickuhr, K. (2010 February, 3). Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens & Young Adults. Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet Studies.

13. What is Web 2.0 (O’Reilly) Web as platform for services Continuous improvement (beta) Rich user interfaces Architecture of participation (self-serve) Design for hackability & remixability Data transformability

14. Applications get better the more people use them.-Tim O’Reilly

15. What is Web 2.0 (Alexander) Web services that allow users to: Collaborate, remix Dynamically update (RSS) Interact innovate Be irreverent Foster Openness, Folksonomies Micro-content sharing between domains, servers, machines (Google Maps)

16. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course, a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people? - Tim Berners-Lee

17. We are Web 2.0 Products services internet social-interactive features collaborate remix added- value interact be creative dynamic RSS chronological auto updating Social software live democratic no-hierarchy irreverent micro-content discursive powerful tool powerful arena user-created interactive categories of technologies Web 2.0 represents best ideas from teaching and thinking cooperative learning not new Facebook openness to end users participation change and modify for the better by different people people put their insight in users can share different insights or points of view interest-driven users evolve the (non) final product co-construction co-creation open source an attitude not a technology Platform Services Users as Co-developers The Long Tail customer self-service beta light programming cooperation interact collaborate share data information microcontent cross-platform openness folksonomy user-defined linkages between users and content share multimedia content personal profiling intertechnology applications

19. Tag Cloud • Allows Students’ Input • Collective Intelligence • Visualization of Themes • Sites for creating Tag Clouds or Word Clouds • www.wordle.net • www.tagcrowd.com EDCI Web 2.0 Tag Cloud in Wordle http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2428335/Web_2.0_Tag_Cloud

20. Web 2.0 and Education

21. Good for resource-sharing • Develop & show personal library/interests • Find community • Best teaching practices (constructivist) • Collaborative • Archival • Timeliness /Data updating • Exotic perspectives • Learning curve • Intrusive – requires your information to open an account • Need to evaluate • Mile-wide-inch-deep understanding • Authorship • Addiction

22. National Ed Tech Policy: 20 years

23. TheLearning Ecology Barron, B. (2006) in Human Development, 49, 193-224.

25. Tool: Blog (Web-blog) Online journals written by individuals (bloggers) or collaborations; may be topic-focused or stream of consciousness. May include audio, video, images, etc. Increasingly important source of news (e.g., Huffington Post).

26. Tool: Micro-blogging 3rd most popular social networking technology Users publish ‘Tweets’ of 140 Characters * Follower structure * Live searching (e.g., #inauguration) * Link-sharing to longer Web content (e.g., articles, discussions, posts, videos)

27. Tool: Video- or Photo-sharing Websites that allow uploading of video/audio clips or photos

28. Tool: Audio-players iTunes: an audio playback program developed by Apple. Use iTunes to import songs from CDs, etc. The program can also download songs (for a small fee) from the iTunes Music Store. Podcast: combines the terms iPod and broadcast. They are audio and video broadcasts that can be played on an iPod or on the computer through iTunes.

29. Tool: Social Network(ing) Sites Niche Social Network sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites • Social networking sites allow people to: • Create and customize a multi-media “My Profile” • Link to other people & content (e.g., “friend”, “share”) • Make, view & traverse connections to others

32. Instant Messaging (IM) • Typically online/computer program • Real-time • Pop-up window • Multi-media not just text • Texting • Typically via cell phone • Real-time or inbox message • Covert • Written text • “Sexting” • Flirting by sending semi-nude photos from cell phone to cell phone

35. Connecting Through the Keyboard: The Rise of Social Networking

36. Rise of Social Networking 100s niche networks Facebook & MySpace get more hits than Google. More popular than virtual gaming environments 2004-2005

37. Who Uses Social Network Sites Source: ComScore January, 2009 Facebook - about ½ are college age (18-24) MySpace - arts, music, visual; 85% are 18+ LinkedIn – career-oriented, professional

38. Popularity Among Teens • 65% of U.S. teens (12-17) use SNS • 85% of college students (18-24) use an SNS • The majority use SNS daily: devoting an average of 9 hours/week • Twin Cities teens (17-18) from low-income families (n=600), 77% use an SNS

39. Not Just for Kids • Many different age groups • 25-34 pop on Facebook is doubling every 6 mths • 35-54 fastest growing demographic • 13+ age requirement; Parental consent <13 • Genders • About equal but slightly more females • Ethnicities • Certain groups favor certain sites

40. Vs. other Online Communities People as important as Content • User-generated Profile Customizable and multi-media • Link to other People & Content • Linkages are made Visible Articulate a list of other users with whom you share a connection: ‘Friends’ • Browse & Traverse others’ networks ‘Rolodex effect’ - build your network from others’

41. Blogging & “kudos” • Commenting • Bulletin boards • Groups to join • Customizable Designs • Searchability • Multiple audiences • Replicability • Instant messaging • Email • Audio-- • playing, commenting, sharing • Video-- editing, commenting, playing, sharing • Image/photo-- editing, commenting, sharing

42. Today’s Learning Ecology

43. Role of SNSs in Young Lives Identity Development Relationship Building Peer Support

44. Identity within SNSs • Multi-media platform for self-presentation & impression management If it was really exciting I would post about it. . . . I remember the second I was done I got on MS and I was like [in his post]: ‘I just finished my extended essay and it was really great and its awesome.’ And that is an example of my emotions (Jeremy, high school student)

45. Identity within SNSs Identity work online: the “construction of cool” • Self-reflection on gender, sexual identity, ethnicity • Concealment versus revelation Sometimes when I feel kind of kid-dish I will put on pastel looking backgrounds or if feel like serious than I put on black backgrounds but I must remain feminine, so what I have right now is a black background with pink flowers. (Lily, high school student).

46. Relationship Building & SNSs SNSs may help users build more and stronger relationships of various types: • Bridging capital: our “friends of friends” • Bonding capital: “shoulder to cry on” • Maintained capital: our “ability to mobilize resources from previous network” (e.g., high school friends, foster families, prior support groups)

47. Relationship Building & SNSs • Intensifying already close ties • Friends, Family [I learn] more things and deeper things about t their personality. Like at school we wouldn’t tell…really close or too personal about ourselves. But on MySpace they are more comfortable to share it on there. (Brandy, high school student)

48. Relationship Building & SNSs • Extend connections to people & information • Online features smooth paths to offline relationships I get more information [about a person] that I wouldn’t have otherwise…their relationship status; what college they are going to; like what they are going through on a personal level... You get afforded different opportunities from the site like with the [presidential campaign] caucus invitation. I wouldn’t have been able to go there. I wouldn’t have known how to get there otherwise. (Tanya, high school student)

49. Peer Support I was online and I opened up my Word document to type it up and he [saw a friend online in MS] was saying [using IM] how he was doing too and it was really comforting because I knew I was not the only one doing it. And then, he would ask, “What did you write for Chapter 6?” …and we kind of share ideas that way. (Lee, high school student Blurs social & education-related task support

50. Peer support Blurs social & education-related support in times of transition It’s going to be so hard going out there by myself [to college faraway where she is the only Hmong girl] so I’m gonna need to message people about how I’m feeling…. (Kari, high school senior off to East coast school)