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Transforming My School: Keeping up to date while keeping our students safe

While completing this unit I have been exceedingly enlightened by studying the use of popular culture tools within the 21st century classroom. I have realised that the Internet has changed significantly from its origins and it has happened without me even noticing. What used to be a source of information made by others about what they thought the consumers wanted to read/know/watch/play/experience has become so much more, the user centred generation...

Collaboration, Transformation and Innovation: Challenges for the future in a "new school" context

I have had the unique experience of being invited to be a foundation staff member of an Education Queensland school that opened its doors to students on the first day of the 2010 school year. My role was to establish the school library, or “Discovery Centre” as we call it, the computer network,...

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Filed Under: Production - Bronwyn

The Internet’s Door to Learning: Opening it wider for our youth within the context of formal education

When searching for a journal article to blog about, I was keen to locate one that explored the pedagogical implications of young learners’ engagement with Web 2.0. While there was a proliferation that investigated learner-generated knowledge using Web 2.0 tools in a tertiary setting, few dealt...

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Filed Under: Production - Bronwyn

The Dilemma of Regulating the Internet

The internet provides opportunities for creativity and innovation, social connection, and the free flow of information. It also exposes users, particularly children, to harms, e.g., sexual exploitation, racism, cyber bullying and charges of copyright infringement. Thomas Wold published an article...

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Filed Under: Regulation - Paula

Representation: Transforming My Library

Image: Wilson, T. (2005) via Flickr Throughout the study of the unit ‘Youth, Popular Culture and Texts’ I have constantly found myself nodding along to the lectures and audibly exclaiming ‘yes’ or ‘that’s right’ when completing the readings (much to the confusion of my husband!). I have found...

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Filed Under: Representation - Carmel

Transformation Into a 21st Century Classroom

It is not unusual today to find that students in a classroom are more technological savvy then their teachers. Some teachers feel like they’re losing control because students know more than they do. For teachers there is the problem of rapidly changing digital media, which makes it difficult for them to keep abreast of the latest devices and how to use them effectively. A simple way to assist teachers...

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Filed Under: Identity - Kerrie

What Happens to Our Online Identity?

There are many online resources available to aid teachers in teaching about digital media. While working on Youth Identity and the Internet I came across the following video, from a 2010 Summer School held at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It depicts a young person called Molly when she first started using the Internet as a teenager, and the types of information she uploaded to the...

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Filed Under: Identity - Kerrie

News Alert D-Day is Coming and You Will Lose Your Identity!

freedigitalphotos.net: HackerThe following subheading caught my eye when searching the Internet:D-DAY is coming for a generation of young fraud victims who post too much personal information about themselves on the Internet. The Adelaide Now subheading made me stop and think about the future for our...

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Filed Under: Identity - Kerrie

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An exploration of the intricacies of youth engagement with the Internet

We are a group of Master of Education students studying “Youth, Popular Culture and Text” at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. Our task is to explore young people’s relationship with the media form “The Internet”.

To ensure a thorough critical focus of such a broad and complex media form, we have chosen to use the Circuit of Culture (du Gay, Hall, Janes, Mackay & Negus, 1997), as a framework for our investigations.

This model considers the interrelationships between the elements as well as the elements themselves, for example: Consumption (audience) and Representation; Regulation and Production; Representation and Regulation; Identity and Representation; Production and Consumption; Identity and Production. (see diagram in blog header)

For biographical information on our group members, refer to the "About Us" gadget below

Resource

Du Gay, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Mackay, H. & Negus, K. (1997). Doing cultural studies: the story of the sony walkman. London: Sage/The Open University.

About Us!

Our group consists of five Master of Education Students (Teacher Librarianship) studying Youth, Popular Culture and Text:

Kerrie Thompson works full time as a Primary Science Facilitator in North Queensland. Although currently not working in a library context the skills and knowledge gained since beginning the Master of Education (Teacher-Librarianship) course, has been utilised in her current role through using digital media in teaching Science. Using digital media in all subject areas is a powerful tool in developing students’ knowledge to become informed digital citizens.

Liana Trpkoski is a former Legal Studies and English Teacher. She has decided to make a big change in her career and head for the library. Liana is throughly enjoying learning about new technologies and developments in the teacher librarian field and can't wait to put them into practice in her own library.

Bronwyn White works full-time as the eLearning/Resource Manager at BayView State School in Thornlands, in Brisbane's Bayside (opened 2010). She is responsible for establishing the school's Discovery Centre (library) and the school computer network. In addition to managing both the library and all things IT, she mentors teachers and collaborates with them to ensure that digital pedagogies are embedded across the year levels and curriculum areas at BayView

Carmel Wooding is currently on maternity leave from her role as 'iCentre teacher' at a P-12 College on the Gold Coast. Carmel is passionate about youth & technology & is thoroughly enjoying her experiences studying her Master of Education.

Paula Vanni, after many years, is doing her final unit of the Master of Education degree. Not a teacher, however, but still harboring the dream which began this study direction of working with children in schools in some exciting way! Confessing to a career in social work alongside some experience and much passion about working with children.

The Newest

Transforming My School: Keeping up to date while keeping our students safe

Collaboration, Transformation and Innovation: Challenges for the future in a "new school" context

The Internet’s Door to Learning: Opening it wider for our youth within the context of formal education

The Dilemma of Regulating the Internet

Representation: Transforming My Library

Transformation Into a 21st Century Classroom

What Happens to Our Online Identity?

News Alert D-Day is Coming and You Will Lose Your Identity!

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