{"id":65636,"date":"2020-05-05T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65636"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:09","slug":"collier-and-perry-digital-platforms-alone-dont-bridge-youth-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/05\/collier-and-perry-digital-platforms-alone-dont-bridge-youth-divides\/","title":{"rendered":"COLLIER and PERRY: Digital platforms alone don\u2019t bridge youth\u00a0divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Collier, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University, and Mia Perry, Senior Lecturer of Education, Arts, Literacies at University of Glasgow, co-wrote a piece published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/digital-platforms-alone-dont-bridge-youth-divides-121222?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%204%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%204%202020+CID_bc085ae1b31a1a94d9dafcb9ad69e340&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Digital%20platforms%20alone%20dont%20bridge%20youth%20divides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> that explored the digital lives of young people in Canada and Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s taken for granted in many if not most school environments today that digital technology should be integrated throughout the curriculum to enhance\u00a0not only communication and creativity but also equal access to resources and opportunities.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Digital skills are considered critical for youth navigating the world \u2014 and for gaining mobility. Mobility is understood to mean both the nimbleness to communicate and enter into cross-cultural forums or dialogues (into new kinds of cultural \u201cspaces\u201d through internet platforms or digital technologies) and the capacity to move across socio-economical and cultural groups in everyday life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While it\u2019s critical for literacy educators to\u00a0support student inquiry through digital media, is it the case that\u00a0because young generations grew up as \u201cdigital natives\u201d\u00a0the tools of technology are inherently preferable today for fostering creativity? And when digital technologies foster mobility into new spaces, how do youth experience this?<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/digital-platforms-alone-dont-bridge-youth-divides-121222?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%204%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%204%202020+CID_bc085ae1b31a1a94d9dafcb9ad69e340&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Digital%20platforms%20alone%20dont%20bridge%20youth%20divides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Collier, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University and Mia Perry, Senior Lecturer of Education, Arts, Literacies at University of Glasgow, co-wrote a piece in The Conversation that explored the digital lives of young people in Canada and Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,6],"tags":[6805,5619,2592,98,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65650,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65636\/revisions\/65650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}