I read Turkles piece today and I find that she uses the same Little Tim and the orgot example in many of her papers. Generally, I concur with her ideas on cultural implications of the internet. I must have sunstroke because I'm having a hard time remembering an article I read a few hours ago. Well, its amusing to read 5 or 6 year old articles about computers because the hype or fear either just continued right along or was absorbed. Concerning Turkle: Moving from analytical understandings of the machine itself and even applying those concepts to teach broader analytical skills to the application skill based studies appears to be regressive. The muesum exhibit is a good example of this: really, an exhibit on what a keyboard, hard drive, etc is? silly. but an exhibit about what happens when you press a key on that giant keyboard, that is learning something. Turkle really pushed the generation divide in this paper. Her generation was schooled in the computer as calculator, i cant remember what she called it, but today's generation (me!me!me!) are involved in a simulation culture. true. Then she gave an example of a girl who knew raising taxes in SimCity cased riots and critiqued the lack of critical readership of simulation culture. Yea, critically media studies should be a part of K-12, and not only because of the advent of the net.

thats a lot of free writing.