So, if gone too far this can become very invasive, however, managed correctly, this is not only effective, but essential to connecting different groups to the same discourse.

Well this is basically a key term definition, so I am just going to save this for later.

These are basically the four tenets through which all apps, or programs are created around. "How is my app going to do any or all of these things?"

Increased agency with the influence of social media will do that. It is amazing what a few thousand "likes" will accomplish when it is shown to the right person.

Almost like a cipher

"Gatekeeping institutions" like school? or work?

We are just growing up. It seems to me that there is becoming a deafing awareness of the need for political urgency, and as described below, there are more and more Millennials that are finding politics to be far more approachable than we lead ourselves to believe. Especially as it becomes easier to connect with people with social media, which will continue to be our fulcrum for political agency.

This seems like something that has to be addresses very often if it is to be overcome. Teachers letting their students know their intentions with when the teachers are the ones teaching, and when the students are the ones leading. Similarly, the students need to be receptive with the teachers and with each other, and ready to switch gears from being taught to getting ready to learn on their own. It's a very delicate balance and it requires a lot of awareness and effort on both sides.

The value of mentors cannot be understated. Especially in this context where there is so much nuance between the brainstorming and the final presentation phase that not only is primary source information important, but so is constantly checking each other and trying to improve each other.

Increasing exposure to the local elements of government is unfortunately terribly under-developed. Everyone from CEO's on down don't need to have a hand in local government if they don't want to, but everyone should at least be aware of how it works.

Fun fact: There have been entire movies that have been shot on phones and the quality is actually quite good. We'd do well to remember that a mini-computer links each one of us to each other.

Literally crowd-sourcing information, ideas, research, and making a de-centralized community work towards one common goal. Imagine how many problems we could solve if millions of people at a time, from thousands of different places in the world, all contributed their ideas and time? Just make it a point to tell the users that you are using them to crowd-source maybe?

It also lacks context. As a college student, I spend the majority of my time in front of a screen (probably more than 7hrs a day on average) reading, writing and researching. Just looking at the total time spent on electronics misses the point: what you're doing with that time, how you're leveraging it, is huge

LinkedIn has incorporated this, where you can list your skills and even have people in your social/work network recommend it

I agree, phones are more portable, more customizable and more personal. I use my cellphone everyday, but my laptop is for mostly for work/schoolwork

Fighting social media is not only pointless, it's a wasted opportunity. If used responsibly, it literally connects you to people across the world who can share their thoughts and views with you based on their own widely differing life experience

This is the STAR method! Situation > Task > Action > Result, widely used to grade interview questions/responses

Bringing back critical thinking to online / community based sharing of information is crucial. Digital illiteracy is something that both adults and youth are vulnerable to, which we see regularly with retweets and reposts of unverified information

The opposite also happens. The NFL and the movement initiated by Colin Kaepernick shadowed all of the past season, and cost the NFL millions of dollars in lost revenue from people both pro- and against the movement. Ad revenue was lost (most notably during the Super Bowl) because so many artists and companies did not want to be associated with the NFL brand during that time; fans stopped going to games and/or paying for their subscriptions because they were tired by the politics overshadowing the game.

"Learning algorithms" can start guiding you into a social media echo chamber, even if you didn't consciously unfollow/dislike/unfriend something.

We have several examples of social media used to immerse its members more in their community, instead of isolating them: Pokemon Go gets users out in all weathers and organizes community events to encourage participation; Yelp and Four Square encourage people to try new things and share their experience; Venmo is even trying to make splitting a bill a social networking moment, emojis and all.

Facebook's CEO recently made a public request for governments to step in to make a sort of road map that they could follow, as the task of policing "fake news", as well as preventing cyberbullying and protecting privacy, are each too big of a task for companies to be able to identify and tackle on their own.

We're seeing this happen right now as political campaigns are dedicating more funds to online adverts, viral videos, podcasts and organizing marches instead of tv ads and traditional radio. Cities and States have their own apps announcing meetings, townhalls, and votes, all conveniently stored on your phone.

All of these thrive not just from the content, but the comment sections

It also makes the conversation escalate and turn aggressive faster. "Keyboard warriors" will say things online easily that wouldn't be acceptable behavior in person. The person you're arguing with becomes just some text on a screen, or a 2D face, that you can attack to make your point. Are we conscientious enough of this risk in our current social media usage?

But it's also how young people risk limiting their world - when you can unfollow and unfriend any opinion/person you disagree with, are you really getting a full perspective? Or are you just narrowing your field of view and becoming less empathetic to opposing views?

"Traditional" measures are no longer enough. We're increasingly connected digitally, and social and political activism online should be a metric here. From civic debates on social media platforms like Facebook and Reddit to crowdfunding efforts like GoFundMe, millennials are trying to participate in the conversation.

I think these numbers would look a lot different since 2016. The Trump campaign and administration has created an opposition movement that is very active and young. At the same time, approachable, dynamic figures like Bernie Sanders and AOC are appealing directly to millennials and their interests, increasing millennial civic engagement.

This sounds like an awesome initiative that generates interest in local youth, but also gives participants real life skills

Discord is another example: a digital media app for gamers used to coordinate community events, or find a team to play competitive games with

Mental health is becoming a bigger discussion in gaming communities, with Twitch (where gamers live-stream videos) now including its own "Mental health support" page to encourage streamers and viewers to help each other

Self-awareness of not only yourself, but of your place within a bigger whole (the community you are a part of and acting within)

Interesting imagery. Are they saying that there are pre-determined pressure points in digital media, that if "tapped" correctly can lead to participatory politics and eventually connected civics? Or are the "pressure points" much more fluid, and depend on an emotional connection to a community before it develops into a civic interest in an issue?

Young people are just looking for a connection through digital media. With their friends, with their community, with strangers across the world about an interest or an issue to resolve. Politics (with the capital "P") seems like a business in comparison, with no emotional or connected depth

(#)trashtag is a great example of this, that's created a lot of interest recently. Post a photo of an area before you (and usually some friends) clean it up, then an "after" photo of your group with all the bags at your feet)

Is it that the education system is failing to bridge that gap ("applicable" math), or that students are failing to make that connection themselves, with all the tools available to them?

Media literacy - in the form of critical thinking, and checking sources - needs to be a bigger focus in schools and work life!

Forums like Reddit are great for this. While moderatos keep the discussion civil, the rest of the debate is pretty fluid and redditors are more focused on contributing their opinion than in competing for a certain position within an organization

Would the Parkland survivors group, advocating for gun control, be considered an example of this?

We need to bring the civic and political discussions to people. For youth in particular, digital media is the most important forum for these discussions and connections. To not use it and leverage it, is a waste opportunity to get people interested and involved

Just as an aside; Deus Ex is a fantastic game. Definitely worth being played again by future gaming generations.

Everybody wants to be smart, but seemingly no one wants to learn. Just as electricity follows the path of least resistance, so to does the majority of human effort.

I wonder what ways of thinking that I have learned are already starting to work against me...

"The lusory attitude is the psychological attitude required of a player entering into the play of a game. To adopt a lusory attitude is to accept the arbitrary rules of a game in order to facilitate the resulting experience of play." - Wikipedia

If you could find a way to make a student attack learning the way a pro-gamer attacks the mastery of game... the results would be simply incredible.

Apparently there have even been people that have opened up businesses for e-commerce on Second Life and made money! There are world's created for the sake of advertisements that are frequently traveled and generate revenue as well.

Video games - both as a medium for learning and a large-scale industry product - are still rooted within the realm of "hobbyist" or "recreational" industry, that's why I think it is so common that video games aren't taken seriously. The largest consumer base just wants to play on the weekends outside of work, but I'm genuinely interested to see how it will be reformed for education to become more "woven" and less "tangled"

multi-faceted learning. Remixing. Early adaption to new technologies is making the creation and distribution of content not just possible, but almost necessary.

It took me a minute, but I can really relate to this. When you find a good game (much like a good book), it grips you. It becomes it's own reason to complete it. and due to that investment coming from inside the player, the comprehension and desire for mastery become exponential. Somewhere usually early on, you stopped needing to be convinced to play and it becomes an itch that can't be scratched until the game's completion.

It's really hard to imagine this style of immersion being implemented in all different class types, but seriously, this is the way you engage people in general, and especially children.

The trick here is priming the investment in the reader to read strategically. I would love to see school as a video-game of comparable interest to the latest and most popular video games, but as it is the material just isn't there. I play competitive video-games to be the best, because in a way that goal is clearly defined within the techniques of the game play. "Being the best" in school, by comparison is not quite as easily defined.

Allowing for more "agency" in the modern day learning environments. Maybe support more critical-thinking and problem solving and less Jeopardy-style trivial pursuit? Assume for a second that a child having the internet at their finger tips is a good thing, or the only thing that can help them solve unique classroom problems. What problems might those daily activities look like?

As a former technician having done multiple jobs, this feels real. Grab your tools, read from the manual, don't divert from the manual because reasons, follow steps 1-10, button it back up, go home. Which is great process if what you're working on happens to be a machine...

It's hard to predict what courses and what avenues or schools of thought are going to feature heavily in the future, but it seems to me that Mobile Media Learning is trying to give a platform to every and any new method of delivering that information. The implication being that it will always be rooted in something that is easy to access.

"Internet Culture" is a real thing. Stereo-typically the internet is full of radicals on both sides of the political isle with large groups to refer to as "back-up". Though also fairly stereo-typically, the worst of these offenders don't often use other sources outside of their networks. No reason to "reach across the isle" as it were. Which I believe is where a lot of "well-roundedness" comes from.

Where as in the states commitment to schooling extends to 12th grade w/ only some schools emphasizing college or vocation. Pity. In Europe, or at least some countries like Germany, put apprenticeships on par with college because both have equal economic value. Contrast that with the states where "apprenticeships" are practically non-existent.

Adapt and overcome. When job and education opportunites become scare, but technology and design platforms become more abundant, you basically have to start working for yourself.

There comes a point where being swept along is no longer enough.

As someone who doesn't use social media all that often, this hits kind of hard...

A simulation video game, say, simulator of performing surgery, presents the core concepts of what it may mean to perform a surgical procedure, though there will be flaws. These imperfections may be that you have to inject a syringe in a semi-random location to lower the patients BPM when the simulation isn't going well. This is a flaw in the games construction. While arguably necessary, so as not to get bogged down in the nuance of surgery, it is nonetheless an inaccuracy that facilitates a type of 'laziness' in the operation. Meaning that further tweaks to the game or different simulations may be required to understand the full scope of events from start to finish.

Rather than going through the traditional channels of create, submit, publish, and market, there is an impressive surge in the amount of tools that allow for going straight to market after the creation. No middle men, no creative content censorship, just the creator putting his name on his own creations and showing them to people. Not surprisingly, both content creators and consumers love this new paradigm. Often times the quality is much more original and some of the time it is even free to consume.

He's perfect for Hollywood.

This killed me a little bit. I get what a one-track mind is like. At the risk of inserting opinion where it does not belong, Luis must've just felt so bored at school. At lunch, he's making backgrounds. In class he is day dreaming about filming fight scenes from a wide angle instead of a standard angle. On his way to and from school he's got music tracks going through his mind that would be perfect for this scene! It is all-consuming. Then to have his parents and teachers tell him he's not "applying" himself... I get it.

There is a lot to be said for facing challenge when it comes to earning even the opportunity to develop your craft, much less the techniques and modalities associated to it. The parents challenged Luis' commitment, and that's even difficult for most adults.

This is a truly awesome concept that I hope gets enacted not just to underprivileged schools, but to every school. I would learn SO much more from watching a professional try to debug a complex program then just learning about debugging myself, as an example.

Not just girls, but anyone who wants to learn a skill involving hand-eye coordination can benefit from a well designed game. Surgeons are quickly turning to micro-machinery operated by Xbox controllers. Drone pilots of all kinds are the same way.

The same issue that we are having a reckoning with now. If your child doesn't have a phone, someone at school does. Only furthering the condition of the desire to be connected. Like it or not, tech is going to improve and continue to connect us in ways we haven't thought of. Depriving anyone, much less children, of the chance to grow with that is only a disservice in the long run.

There needs to be multiple platforms to share these different sides to people. it does promote a type of "tribalism", but the content that is created can have it's truest potential scrutinized and ultimately validated or invalidated by people who know and care about the quality of the content. Think, posting an experimental recipe on Pinterest versus Craigslist.

Nice. I really like how there is a near over-emphasis on the idea that all new medias are not equal, not all situations are equal, and certainly not all situations that new medias are used are all equal. Subjectivity, all the way down the moment-of-action is important when looking at the use of new medias in youths.

Is youth still wasted on the young?