Friday, March 4, 2011

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Mimi Ito: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Mimi Ito is a ' anthropologist and Japanese researcher who has dedicated his career to the study of the relations between young people and new media, with particular attention to of social networks. Social media represents a great opportunity , are not only distracting, but they can enhance learning, says Ito. It is no more conceivable that it plays in a classroom just a lesson. While the professor talks about students use computers for a variety of alternative activities: Relation to social networks, receiving and sending messages. According to Ito, the use of new technologies by children can only have positive effects. His book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media" contains a huge collection ethnological fact. The way to develop their own identities and their relationships is certainly changed with the advent and expansion of new technologies, but not necessarily worse. Indeed, according to Ito boys benefit from their virtual relationships, which then turns into real relationships.

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