1. The New Digital Illiteracy
It’s a Monet!
The New Digital Illiteracy

2. Teen use of new technologies = like a monet, looks good from far away but up close it's a big old mess.

3. Can use digital products, phones,

4. xbox cars

5. Facebook, etc

6. Only consume, not create
when creating content, only doing so within allowed guidelines, limited creativity

7. ?
Missing basic skills

8. but think they know everything

9. Douglass Rushkoff suggested in LJ in Feb that we teach kids program

10. Super idea, but how when so many kids can’t do basics?

11. 21% of teens who do not otherwise go online say they access the internet on their cell phone.
XX% of kids access internet from phone, need more access to real computers for creating real content

12. 41% of teens from households earning less than $30,000 annually say they go online with their cell phone. Only 70% of teens in this income category have a computer in the home, compared with 92% of families from households that earn more.

13. 44% of black teens and 35% of Hispanic teens use their cell phones to go online, compared with 21% of white teens.

14. What can Libraries do?

15. better equipment & software. should invest in future programmers
better equipment & software. should invest in future programmers. worth it.

16. try to teach basic stuff and more complicated though processes at the same time?16

17. allow time for creativity

18. tech them to design video games, not just passivey participate

19. FAIL
create a space for failure