Danah Boyd, "Literacy: Are Today's Youth Digital Natives?'"

• Danah Boyd's "Literacy: Are Today's Youth Digital Natives?" (here are the footnotes for the chapter)  
• Critical digital literacy exercises (includes "Are You Smarter than a Stanford Student?" 

Background on Boyd & her book

• Some background on Boyd: her homepage, blog, twitter feed, social bookmarks (on delicious), wikipedia page  

• The text we are reading is a chapter from Boyd's book, It's Complicated: the Social lives of Networked Teens." 
  Boyd has made the text freely available online as a .pdf (what does that tell us about the author and her attitude to her work?) 

Videos of Boyd and other Writers discussing Digital Natives

• Boyd talk to Leo Laporte about how the idea of 'Digital Natives' is a misnomer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0k-Rx4sht8 (4 minutes)
• Boyd talks to UW Comm undergraduate Austin Williams about her book, "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvR2EFXRYU (12 minutes)
• Marc Prensky (often credited with coining the term “digital natives”) explains digital natives to PBS interviewer on Frontline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGQLTHyRG_g
• Two talks that show how widespread the terms “digital natives” and digital immigrants” are. 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9gI0B4nS4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRQdAOrqvGg (shows existence and popularity of the term ‘digital native’)
• Do "Digital Natives" Exist? Idea Channel, PBS Digital Studios. Fun entertaining video that echoes many of Boyd’s claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVKBAqjHiE
• Boyd cites the influential work of Tarleton Gillespie on the politics of algorithms.
• This 5 minute interview of Gillespie by an undergraduate spells out some main ideas of his work in an accessible way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cT1i1_Nydw

Source Texts for Working with Boyd

• A selection of source texts and "research frames" for analyzing Boyd's article. 

Digital Literacy Materials for Unit 2

• a collection of materials on digital literacy. 

The Assignment Description, Prompt, & Materials for Drafting Paper 2

•  The prompt, rubric, template phrases, drafting materials and some sample student draft papers.
• Passages where Boyd examines the "rhetoric of the digital native" 
• Louis CK on cellphones and social media  - could be seen as illustrating Sherry Turkle's The Flight From Conversation.

Sophisticated Digital Literacy/Critical Digital Literacy 

• http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/course/aps
• http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-find-anything-online-with-advanced-search-techniques--cms-21154 
• http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/04/digital-natives-yet-strangers-to-the-web/390990/ 
• http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Spark/ID/2297130915/  
• RHEINGOLD http://blog.sfgate.com/rheingold/2009/06/30/crap-detection-101/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0fPMD8-l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVvGELuEqM  
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42
• http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/RTE/0471-aug2012/RTE0471Examining.pdf
  
• http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/22/digital-divides-2015/ 
• http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-media-technology-2015/
• http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/04/13/digital-differences/