Literacies and Identities

The main thing that caught my attention from the reading is that, although students are encouraged to participate on the web through tweets, videos, or even creating a blog like this one, some people think negatively about the web. In one of the readings, it talks about how a student had to ask the teacher to talk to his mom to reassure her that he was not doing anything bad on the web. But its not only parents, other teachers and even other teens may think of the web as bad when, in fact, there are many pros. One of the biggest pros to using the web is teen involvement in social or political issues. It gives teens an opportunity to talk about their opinions within their own environment.