Molly Mutschler's List: Thoeries of Adolescent Development

• more children and adolescents use computers and the Internet at school
• than at home
• only 33% of the daily and weekly users had been taught how to judge the reliability of online information
• not all youth today are "digital natives"
• teachers have a vital role to play in guiding youth participation
• Vygotsky convincingly argued that adults should bridge the distance between learners' current levels of understanding and levels that can be achieved through collaboration with experts and powerful artifacts.
• Recognition of informal adolescent literacies needs to be tempered with knowledge of the multimodal textual encounters that youth still need to traverse.
• It should not be assumed that the conventional literacies taught in schools are alien to students or have little relevance to their lives

6 more annotations...

• • chart p348

  • This chart shows that without safety, further development cannot occur.
• didn’t have food
• had water
• less aggressiv

2 more annotations...