A New Literacy Event
Today I had a go at playing Supple!! Thanks to PJC my life will never be the same again. It’s a bit like the Sims – but sexier. So that’s the game for me, obviously.
Check out the demo.
Thinking about events and practices, what might I be involved in here .. blogging as a literacy practice and prior to this I was involved in playing video games as a practice. The literacy event I was involved in was playing ‘Supple’ at my office computer and then writing this particular post – which involved embedding a video from YouTube. Usually it is pretty easy to embed a video from YouTube but today I had to fiidle around and work out how to make the code work… maybe I am a digital native as I keep on going till I resolve a problem lilke this.
Maybe one day I will be as good as this baby using the iphone:
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Amazing how this little baby is learning to manipulate text at the same time as he is learning to speak. Is this baby involved in a literacy event I wonder? As Barton and Hamilton also note is commonplace, there is a lot of talk going on around the literacy event, and this is certainly a social event we see here.
In terms of practices there is a whole load of nurturing stuff going on there (the practice of parenting and ‘being in a family’) and a sharing of a global global phenomenon from the broader context.
Yes, I agree that there are a range of interesting practices here and suggest you also look at the next video that family posted, see:
http://digitalbeginnings.blogspot.com/2007/11/nano-kids.html
the child has obviously learned a range of social practices around technology, including saying ‘cheese’ when he looks at a camera! Fascinating stuff.
Jackie Marsh
25 Nov 07 at 6:14 am