Question 1: Preparing Students as Digital Citizens Shirky talks about amateurs who follow their passion based on intrinsic motivation, which was separate from their professional jobs with extrinsic motivation. Before the internet, amateurs “largely opted out of public action” . It wasn’t intentional, it was just a lot harder to find people with similar interests, passions, and hobbies. With today’s connectedness, however, “social media has become an environment for enacting those desires” (page 84). Considering that “amateurs generally use public access not to reach the broadest possible audience, but to reach people like themselves” (page 89), what is our role as educators to prepare students to become digital citizens who will be finding and interacting with many more people online than we ever did? Where does this role fit with the rest of the curriculum that we teach? Discussion Question 2: Teaching in a World Where Anyone Can Publish The Internet, in addition to readily available and inexpensive tools, has allowed an explosion in personal publishing. “Publishing used to be something we had to ask permission to do’ the people whose permission we had to ask were publishers. Not anymore. Publishers still perform other functions in selecting, editing, and marketing work, but they no longer form the barrier between private and public writing.” Given that this shift has happened largely without people being taught how to publish (very few contributors have received training on how to write online or make a video), what is the role of education in preparing our students to be the publishers of today and tomorrow? How does this change the world for our students in regards to teaching and learning?
What is the role of education in preparing our students to be the publishers of today and tomorrow?Explain
