Third space in cyber space: Indigenous youth new technologies and literacies
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Renshaw, Peter
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Jos van der Linden, Peter Renshaw
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This chapter analyses the affordances and constraints of a cyber literacy program (PLUS) designed for Australian Indigenous youth. The project sought to build on the cultural resources and experiences of the youth by engaging in a dialogic process of planning, negotiating, implementing, reflecting and renegotiating the program with participants and a range of stakeholders. Our observations suggest a complex interaction between indigeneity and cyber technologies. In the majority of cases, students presented themselves as part of the pervasive global popular culture, and often hot-linked their web pages to those of their pop icons and local sports stars. Nonetheless, the Elders from the Indigenous community were immensely proud of the achievements of these young students in mastering aspects of the new cyber technologies, and regarded their cyber competency as a potential cultural tool and community resource
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Dialogic learning: Shifting perspectives to learning, instruction, and teaching
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© Springer-Verlag 2004. The original publication is available at www.springer.com