C4T Assignment #1

Jenny Luca
I have been following Jenny Luca for two weeks and these are her blog topics and my responses:
Contextualizing life
Her first post was about Contextualizing life. Basically watching a TV episode and having it relate to a day to day basis. She was stating that it was relating to the importance of having better context to help one understand the many things that we are faced with in today's world on a daily basis. She was also talking about how many times a day we do not full grasp or understand the things we come in contact with, whether it be a reading material or a video. She also mention the use of a tool called Storify, that they hope would help the students have a better advantage over understanding things day to day.
My Response
I agreed and responded with saying that many of us do not have a great contextual background and we really do not fully understand things that we are faced with on a daily basis and that such tools will hopefully be useful in helping one understand and get better with the context part of things to be able to understand fully what they are encountering.
How do you deal with a world that is messy?
Her Second post was about, How do you deal with a world that is messy? by Danah Boyd at RMIT. She commented on how teenagers’ participation in social networks as ‘social grooming’. We are seeing our children form and sustain friendships in public spaces on the Internet. She also stated that, "When I was a teenager, I was out and about with friends on the weekend and after school, and my friendships were formed in what were public spaces, but often private in terms of my parent’s knowledge of what I was doing." Then she goes on to commenting about the talk of the bedroom culture and how it is really like a safe place and one to call your own and express yourself.The she discussed the interesting points about code messaging on facebook when your parents are relatives are your friends.Then she made another interesting point about the sexual predator status statistically does not exist.
My response
I could relate to the code using on facebook, the bedroom as my safe haven from a kid to now even as an adult. As a younger adult me and my friends used codes and different things to not let people know what we were saying and even today we still may do it for fun. Its true that my bedroom is like my sanctuary a place for me and my thoughts. I also commented about the sexual predators on the internet not being so much of a concern now days. Today its more bullying, threatening and fighting over the internet.