Procrastadabbler

Part of what I’ve been struggling with recently is my research agenda. It has, ostensibly, been about adolescent use of digital technologies and literacies and the implications of that use for their participation in today’s information/fast capitalist society. I’m still interested in that, but I’ve also been struggling with the issue of race and social class and identity. It’s all mushed up together. I’m struggling to bring it all together into some kind of coherent form and just am not there. It’s frustrating. I know what it is that I am striving toward, but I am unable to articulate it in any coherent, cogent, and most importantly concise fashion that intelligently draws on existing literature.

Geneva Gay was on campus today talking about culturally responsive teaching and mentioned the continued need for research in the various components of  crt. Is what I’m struggling toward part of that? In the article that’s a mess right now, one of the things I’m arguing is that technology use and the meanings students bring to technology is context specific. Is knowledge of that specificity a movement toward a culturally responsive way to think about the use of technology? Has our perceptions of what constitutes technology use been buried within the White paradigm that we are missing something else?

Always questions.