by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Remixing, re-appropriation and riffing off other people’s work just seems to be part of what we do as human beings. Instead of that being hidden, as to some extent it was previously, this has been foregrounded as a positive thing in the web era” (Belshaw,...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Oct 21, 2015 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
This week, I have been thinking much about the role of social media in the formation of social identity. Research indicates that adolescents are deeply concerned about how they appear in the eyes of their peers. “[A]dolescence is an intensely social time when...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Oct 3, 2015 | Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
This week, thanks to my Digital Literacy class, I have been thinking lots about the use of Popular Culture in the classroom. What is Pop Culture? Quite simply, Pop Culture refers to mainstream cultural references. This Youtube video shared by Adrian Hogendoorn,...
