blog # 21 Dana Boyd

Today I saw the Dana Boyd Handheld Learning Conference 2008. This conference is actually very lengthy, but very real in it's depth. Dana is touching base in her lecture on my space and face book or actually her lecture is how technology plays such a part in today's world. In the beginning she begins with how we tend to see technology as the devil or the uppity of evil. Its how we relate to these web sites.How we post ourselves on these sites is closely relates to bedroom culture. We put ourselves out there for an audience. On these sites we make and put up what we want. We only accept only the friends we choose to. Which is not the same in real life. In life we are polite to a person even if we do not like them, but on these sites we deny or block those we do not want regardless of their feelings.
She also discusses the reason so many teens are on theses sites and most responses were because there mom or parents did not let them out of the house. Yet this technology is giving them an open door to the world. When you really look further though you can also see that technology also helps us keep an eye and find everything our children do. So if we try it can go hand in hand.