Comments on: Digital Natives and Chicken Little http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/01/18/digital-natives-and-chicken-little/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Artichoke http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/01/18/digital-natives-and-chicken-little/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Artichoke Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:30:32 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/01/18/digital-natives-and-chicken-little/#comment-57 Designing learning experiences that encourage students to explore the remix in current media is a powerful strategy - I like the idea - It may make them curious about the cultural/media origins of the plotlines in the advertisements and music videos that submerge us. And good luck with your own movie experiences with the kids - My most traumatic <i>"movies with the kids in the holidays"</i> experience was sitting through a Pokemon Movie - was the first time I have ever felt so at odds with the rest of an audience. I left the theatre with excited and exuberant kids, but also with the knowledge that I had grown too old for Pokemon. Designing learning experiences that encourage students to explore the remix in current media is a powerful strategy – I like the idea – It may make them curious about the cultural/media origins of the plotlines in the advertisements and music videos that submerge us.

And good luck with your own movie experiences with the kids – My most traumatic “movies with the kids in the holidays” experience was sitting through a Pokemon Movie – was the first time I have ever felt so at odds with the rest of an audience. I left the theatre with excited and exuberant kids, but also with the knowledge that I had grown too old for Pokemon.

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