BLOGGING ABOUT BLOGGING

WHY DO WE BLOG?

       WE BLOG TO EXPRESS

OURSELF. ITS THE ONE PLACE ONE CAN SAY WHAT THEY FEEL OR PLEASE IT CAN BE SAID WHILE BEING YOURSELF.

WHY SHOULD WE ENCOURGE YOUTH TO BLOG?

IT WOULD GIVE THEM THE FREEBOM TO BE WHO

THEY ARE. ITS THEIR OUTLET

Digital Natives Digital Immigrants

As Prensky explains Digital Natives are “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games, and Internet.  Digital Immigrants are instructors who speak outdated language. They have trouble teaching us in the way we learn.

We the Digital Natives are use to getting information fast. We are ready to move on once we grasp a concept. We as Digital Natives learn more through games actually seeing things online. According to Prensky Digital Immigrants normally have little to appreciation for the way Digital Natives learn now. They prefer to teach the way they use to learn, which to us is foreign.

Reading Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky , made me reflect on the way things were for me in school. Growing up we had computers and all kinds of technology. I loved the weekend because I had no limit on being on the internet or playing educational games on my vtech laptop. In school as much as I like to learn new things I hated learning it in school because the teacher would take forever getting to the next step let alone the lessons.

I like to doodle while the teacher speaks and I use to get in trouble for that, because they felt I wasn’t paying attention when in actuality I was. Over all I found the reading to be very interesting. I really didn’t notice how much technology has affected my life.

Hip Hop

Tricia Rose made a comment about what Nas and him saying that hip hop is dead. heres an interview on  Nas she said " hip hop is not dead, but its gravely ill." I agree with Tricia because over the years hip hop has changed. it has changed in terms of its meaning. Not to long ago hip hop use to come from the heart, it spoke of the struggles of being a black man better yet a minority. the perfect example of this is tupac and the song i thought of is  changes by tupac his song had meaning.

Today hip hop is about making money. Its based on what sales and today what sales is sex, woman and almost any material thing you can make a song about it sells. perfect example for this is Tyga the songs I have heard from him are about hoe's in one of his songs he says " its one eight seven how im killing these hoes" in another song called by him and travis porter Ayy ladies which i actually enjoyed before i payed attention to the lyrics he says " if you a top notch bitch let me hear you holler bend it over (yeah) touch your toes whip it out (yeah) show them hoes ya bank roll slang it out hit a broke hoe with it poke it out damn shawty you can get it... and it goes on. Hip hop is is ill because its no longer about politics or the struggle of minorities. Its no longer from the heart its more about making money and being on top. 

FINAL PROJECT IDEA

My group Brooke, Angela, Chela, Linett, and I are going to be focusing on teens resisting the dominant ideological concepts that wish to control, manipulate, and oppress them, through poetry, art, and writing they form new ideas and represent themselves to eventually change these ideologies and bring about change in hopes that better more life fulfilling concepts can come to light.

Midterm Project

My group and I will be doing a skit. I will be the mom Angela will be my lesbian daughter and Chela will be the best friend / girlfriend. my daughter will be secretly dating Chela and i find out. my focus will be Croteau and Wesch. i hope you guys enjoy it.

Thomas Hine

Thomas Hine
The Rise And Fall of the American Teen 

Thomas Hine writes about how teens  are viewed in society. Society looks down on teens. They view teens as a bad thing/ or stage. From my understanding its a stage in life that these young people go through and after they are past it, they don't tend to look back at the stage as their teenage years. Adults remember it as their "not so smart days".   Hine states "...we remember ourselves as ourselves. Being a teenager isn't an identity but a predicament most people live through. I remember myself then no different then I am now. Teenagers are seen in society as outsiders. Hine states "... while this is largely a history of roles and expectations, the teenagers I'm discussing aren't some exotic species-they're real people." They are what society deem as teens why expect less from them? They are treated as if they aren't capable of doing many things.  They are seen as irresponsible, rebellious, troubled and difficult to handle. Another great point Hine brings up  is how media and society has a role in how teenagers grow up in terms of what they should look like, and how to act. media and society has a large impact on how teenagers are potrayed 

Linda Christensen
                               Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us
   Linda Christensen argues that from a young age we are influence by what we read, see on television, and the people around us. One particular point that the author brings up is Disney. in Disney one does not see a person of color play the lead role. In the article the author talks about how people can be stereotyped. White people are typically powerful ones and the people of color are the inferior ones and one can say that the overweight people are the not so smart ones. in many Disney the mean are put to be darker and ugly where as the good people are better looking. For example The Lion King, Scar was the mean brother he was darker than his brother and lived where the sun did not really shine. Mufasa was the lighter brother whom ran everything he is much lighter and handsome. Pumba whom is the over weight pig isnt so bright and must be guided through everything .... the hidden messages in the Disney movies shows that  the light one is the more attractive and powerful they are. the darker the person is the meaner and uglier they are a perfect example for this is the princess and the frog the first black princess and throughout the entire movie she is an ugly frog. Christensen points out many interesting facts that as a young child one does not think about..