Back to that old question of pedagogy
04-November-2005
permalinkBBC NEWS | Technology | US youths use internet to create:
In most of my presentations on Open Source, I have been focusing on changes in the way young people learn. Young people are learning, I have said through trying things out, through making, doing, creating. Now there is an american survey out which backs up my views. makes interesting reading. My big conclusion is that we still need to change our idea of what is content. Content is not something we give to them or do to them, but content is something they make.
"A large swathe of young Americans use the web to create and share content as well as use other people's content for their own creations, says a report.
The Pew American and Internet Life Project research suggested that 12 to 17-year-olds look to web tools to share what they think and do online.
It also said they were much more likely than adults to read and have a weblog.
The report found that those who did have blogs were far more likely to remix and share music and images.
A third said they shared their own work - artwork, photos, stories, or video - with others online. Girls were more likely to do so than boys - 38% compared with 29%.
These teens would say that the companies should think of their relationship with teens as one where they are in a conversational partnership, rather than in a strict producer-consumer, arms-length relationship.
Interestingly, the teenagers who blogged (52%) were more likely to care about copyright issues than those who did not blog.
"These teens were born into a digital world where expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers," Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, told the BBC News website."
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