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18 to educate students in ethical approaches to the repurposing, creation and sharing of content. VI. Epilogue On February 11, 2011, I sat next to our colleague, Nazik Roufaiel, a native of Egypt, at the New Mentor Orientation in Latham, N.Y. We watched Arabic broadcasts on the Al Jazeera Network in real time as historical events unfolded in Cairo. As we viewed the live video stream of protesters demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, ongoing updates popped up on my iPhone from The New York Times, CNN, BBC, Reuters, Le Monde, and other news sources. Colleagues from all over the world were commenting on the events on Facebook, and my Twitter feed filled with instantaneous accounts of the live happenings. Social and mobile media were not only purveyors of news to those of us watching from afar. In a mashable article titled “Egyptian President Steps Down Amidst Groundbreaking Digital Revolution,” Emily Banks (2011) commented on the role of social media in the revolution: From the beginning, the revolution in Egypt was propelled by the use of social media. It at least partly began on Facebook with the creation of Facebook groups that gained hundreds of thousands of members and promoted the early protests in Cairo. Subsequently, the government blocked Facebook and Twitter and eventually shut down Internet access completely. And with the outside world following the unfolding revolution online, political leaders and others, including Twitter, spoke out against the violence and freedom of expression issues at risk. (p. 1) Later that day, a colleague commented that he was a little perturbed that one of his new mentees had delivered the first draft of his degree program rationale via iPhone. Meanwhile, a student taking mobile media studies shared his new blog, with an analysis of several mobile applications, before even completing his first reflection for the study. It seems that some of our students are already embracing the tools underlying digital and social media literacy. The college’s Vision 2015 includes the following social mandate: Our mission is to provide education to people who are actively engaged in sustaining and seeking to improve a challenging, diverse and problematic world. Our role as a public institution is not separate from our citizenship in the same world that challenges our learners. We must endeavor to provide the education they need to thrive as individuals, as members of communities, as active citizens and as agents for change. (p. 4) I invite you to consider this statement in alignment with Hobbs’s (2010) comment on the role of digital and media literacy in education: Digital and media literacy education offers the potential to maximize what we value most about the empowering characteristics of media and technology, while minimizing its negative dimensions. As the Knight Commission report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, explains, informed and engaged communities need citizens who appreciate the values of transparency, inclusion, participation, empowerment, and the common pursuit of the public interest. (p. xi) I propose that educating ourselves and our students for digital and media literacy is an important aspect of effective teaching and mentoring for 21st century citizenship. Notes 1 Leads by total June to November 2010. Internal data report on potential applicant inquiries by center and by discipline. This information is based on an analysis of prospective student inquiries, for the period from June 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010. It was generated by the college’s office of Admissions, SUNY Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2011 2 University of Houston, Digital Storytelling Rubric, retrieved April 5, 2011. http://digitalstorytelling.coe. uh.edu/DS-Project-Guidelines-2010. html 3 Linden Lab, “Second Life Community Standards,” http://secondlife.com/ corporate/cs.php. San Francisco, CA: Accessed April 1, 2011. 4 Assets include data provided, photographs and other images, documents and written content, and any media or digital artifact created and uploaded by the user. References Banks, E. (2011, February 11). Egyptian president steps down amidst groundbreaking digital revolution. CNN. Mashable. Retrieved from http:// www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social. media/02/11/egyptian.president.digital. mashable/index.html Brodkin, J. (2009, December 8). Facebook halts Beacon: Gives $9.5 million to settle lawsuit. PC World. Retrieved from http://www.pcworld.com/ article/184029/facebook_halts_beacon_ gives_95m_to_settle_lawsuit.html Goggin, G. (2008). Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunication to Media. London: Routledge. Hobbs, R. (2010). Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action. In The Aspen Institute (Eds.), The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute. Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., & Haywood, K. (2011). The 2011 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Linden Lab. (n.d.). Second Life Community Standards. Retrieved from http:// secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php Lyotard, J.F. (1984). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Theory and History of Literature (V. 10). 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19 Shirky, C. (2011, January/February). The Political Power of Social Media. Foreign Affairs, 90(1), 28-41. Staksrud, E., Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., & Ólafsson, K. (2009). What Do We Know About Children’s Use of Online Technologies A Report on Data Availability and Research Gaps in Europe. 2nd Ed., European Research on Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children’s Safe Use of the Internet and New Media. LSE, London: EU Kids Online. State University of New York Empire State College. (2010). Vision 2015: The report of the vision 2015 task force. Retrieved from: http://www.esc.edu/ esconline/across_esc/president.nsf/3789d 34cd28915ce85256bfa005466c8/47f6bf 639b160db6852575fb0073d0e2/$FILE/ Vision%202015%207-2009.pdf State University of New York Empire State College. (2011). Leads by total June to November 2010. Internal data report on potential applicant inquiries by center and by discipline. “The individual and social aims of education are not only both essential but also are each necessary to the other. Only through the actions of competent, ethical creative individuals can a society be sustained and improved. Only through the systems and ethos of a humane and supportive society can an individual thrive and reach his or her fullest potential. Further, it is only through working in the social realm – with and for others – that the self can develop. Thus, education must foster not just the individual’s growth and accomplishment but also social justice, appreciation of diversity and attention to the greater good. Each of these aims is essential. Each needs to function in constant interaction with the other.” Katherine L. Jelly, “Between Individual and Society: An Essential Dialectic in Progressive Teaching and Learning,” in Higher Education for Democracy, 1999, p. 189 suny empire state college • all about mentoring • issue 39 • spring 2011
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Page 5 and 6: 3 Imagination and Art: Children Cop
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Page 13 and 14: 11 Mentoring: A Poet’s View Susan
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Page 23 and 24: 21 Changing Ways of Knowing for Tra
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Page 33 and 34: 31 Blended Learning Online: New Per
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Page 39 and 40: 37 “At that restaurant” “We d
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Page 43 and 44: 41 Mentoring: A Social Relationship
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