Attended a research seminar at Sheffield University on Children and Young People’s Digital Literacy in Virtual Online Spaces.
The day offered various insights including Sheila Webber’s work facilitating an online learning space in Second Life for students at Sheffield University (as the character Yoshikawa). I sometimes have the great fortune to meet, or hear, people who might be given the label ‘Digital Native’ – they swim where many of us paddle.
Thinking about labels – we need new ones for the following:
- Audience (those who used to view or listen)
- User (too demeaning)
- Participant (not very specific but OK)
- Engager (too clumsy)
Ideas on a postcard please…as they used to say.
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