After last week's critics, I've identified a few themes which I want to research more.
First, I'd like to concentrate on the identity of the cyber world. Some people express his/her hidden selves when they communicate with people on virtual world. That is more obvious in anonymous settings, however sometime it appears in nonymous settings such as Facebook or YouTube. Why people show their unseen characteristics to the public? What do they want by showing their personality to the people?
Another thing which is related to the identity is preteens' identity on cyber world. As my article of last week was about meaning, identity in children's virtual worlds, I really want to more focus on this area like whether virtual interactions, such as Participating on virtual community, making avatar and creating personal blog, are helpful to construct children's identity. I'd like to find the cases of the virtual worlds' negative effects if any, for example, identity disorder caused by over-immersion to the virtual environment.
Another theme I'd like to research for the final project is technology in classroom, especially the features of new technologies such as cell phone, Facebook, second life in classroom settings. I want to focus on what advantages and disadvantages of using these social network environments are.
I found an article about benefits of cellphone use in classroom from the New York Times. According to this article, student can use mobile application for an air test device by using Bluetooth, identification of the exact type of bugs or trees by taking picture, or creation of community among isolated schoolteachers. so, “Anytime-anywhere-anyhow learning” could be achieved by using mobile devices.
Click the link below to read whole article.
Dial-a-Class By ELIZABETH GREEN
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