Guzetti, Elliot, Welsh and Balsamo/Anderson

Guzetti, Elliot and Welsh are instructors who work int he field of online resources, social media, and digtial learning. Despite children growing up in digital generation where ther are there own creators, todays teachers have not. Teachers should care about DIY media to engage and interest their pupils. In addition teachers will need will beneift by learning from there students whenit comes ot technology, “By allowing students to teach their teachers and peers these new literacies, educator can capitalize on students' strengths and acknowledge individuals as capable and articulate people who can inform others (3)”. Teachers will benefit by staying up to date, current views and innovations.Teachers who incorporate new media into their instruction in ways like these tend to realize that those who engage in DIY media practices are learning unique new literacy skills and abilities. (3) Bringing DIY to the classroom allows for children who suffer form economic hardship the ability to interact with new technology. Generally when it comes down to DIY digital cultures there are many bridges that still need to be joined,  both socioeconomic and gender related, at the same there are may new technology hubs such as public libraries, community technoogy centers, and after-school programs working to conjoin these gaps. By becoming familiar with and recognizing the importance of adolescents' DIY media, teachers can acknowledge their students as articulate and capable young people who have myriad ways of demonstrating their literate abilities (10)”.

The authors of the second article Anderson/Balsamo, are individuals that are connected in cinematic arts and divisions of interactive media. Their main argument is how media is going to be in the future. I think predicting that 2020 will be similar to the story written is not realistic but with the rate at which technology is exapnding I wouldn’t be surprised if this was correct. Personally I have always reserved Digital DIY for recreational at-home purposes and rarely have seen it in the classroom, as far as my college experience has gone. DIY has laregely been reserved as a part of my recreational/personal life and not so much my school life. I can breifly remember in elementary school taking computer classes as a requirement but that was in the age of floppy disks. I can also reacall basic typing classes being taught which I find as a benefit today. Overall my middle/elementary school was a poor one, with very little “new” technology interaction. As for high school I went to Milwaukee High School of the Arts, even there, there was very little digital intergration yet there was a large emphasis on creating with the minds and the hands, so more traditional DIY craft. This course has by far been the most hybrid version of digitial and traditonal DIY craft. I can’t recall any of other college classes integrating technology like this one has. Most of the integration has been left up to me, for example: typing notes/papers for class or participating recreationally through facebook etc. Alot of my professors allow students to access various resources online through D2L, as well as post answers and online discussions. Overall, technology has been used as a tool of convenience but not for learning or creativity in most of my classes.