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Participatory culture is the idea of creating something of meaning as a group or community. On a small scale perspective, participatory culture could be something such as the passing down of a family heirloom that someone created within the family. For myself, my great grandfather was a woodworker and he made a bookshelf that has been passed down for generations with myself currently in possession. On a bigger scale, participatory culture could be a group of people that come together with similar interests and skills that are actively participating in creating and engaging with New Literacies. These groups could use types of media that interests them collectively to try and influence others such as using video making for commercials or blog entries for social media to influence political aspects in life. I can embrace the best of participatory culture into everyday practices of my classroom by allowing students to work in groups and use their media/technology strengths to present infor

The article, “What Do We Know About Children and Technology,” discusses the different effects that technology can have on children, both positive and negative. There is more of a focus on talking about situations of technology usage by children that refer to negative implications and then trying to analyze those implications with research such as the affects of video games, the affects of blue light and sleep patterns, and the effects of not having access to internet and social media and how that affects child depression to name a few. The article ends with talking about how schools can be used to support students with understanding healthy uses of technology and showing students that classrooms can effectively use technology to provide “an” experience. An insight that I learned from this article is that there is a lot of attention to how technology is affecting children. I feel that from an outside perspective looking in, I feel that children nowadays tend to have way too much screen