WIA Youth Providers Network Meeting

Welcome to Becoming A Mobile Worker Workshop

iGeneration - Lyrics

"iGeneration"
lyrics by MC Lars
music by MC Lars, Damondrick Jack and Piebald

And people tried to put us down, 
when iTunes bumped a post-Cold War sound.
My generation sat the mecca of malls, 
Times Square, I'm there, Viacom installs.
So we hit the net while the Trade Center fell, 
New York met Hollywood, we ran like hell.
No Vietnam for us, yo, Iraq it's on. 
So who agree upon this cowboy Genghis Khan?
The choice made, baby. Hey we'd take it back, 
logged in dropped out, MTV took track.
They sold it back to us and claimed no correlation. 
The iMac, iPod, iGeneration.
And I'm waiting for the day we can get out.
 The world is ours, that's the story no doubt.
Want to be more info super highway traffic, 
want to be more than a walking demographic!

CHORUS
"Hey! You're part of it." Talking about the iGeneration.
"Yeah! You're part of it." Talking about my iGeneration.

See the iGeneration knew organization meant optimization and unification,
When imagination gave participation in creation of culture a manifestation.
The Berlin Wall fell and out we came, the post-Cold War kids laid claim to AIM.
LOL, OMG, yo, BRB. Space, colon, dash, closed parenthesis.
We sat at our laptops and typed away, and found that we each had something to say.
Web-logged our fears, our hopes and dreams. Individuated by digital means.
Fiber optic lenses, DVD, Coca Cola, Disney and Mickey D's.
Flat mass culture, the norm that took hold, I hope I die before I get sold.

REPEAT CHORUS

This is the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T ge-na-ra-tion, see?
This is the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T ge-na-ra-tion, see?

REPEAT CHORUS

Graph: Illustrating How Teens Use their Cell Phones

For larger view of Flowtown graph, clich here.  The data was taken from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2010 study on teen use of cellphones. A link to the full study can be found on an earlier post.

Related Books, Reports & Articles

• Rewired, Understanding the IGeneration And the Way they Learn, Larry D. Rosen, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. More on Larry Rosen, at http://www.csudh.edu/psych/lrosen.htm
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Maryanne Wolf, Haper Collins, 2007. 
• Mobililizing Generation 2.0, A Pratical Guide to Using Web 2.0, Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth, Ben Rigby
• Going Mobile: Debating and Using Cellphones in School,The New York Times, The Learning Network, April 19, 2010
• Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to-18 Year Olds, A Kaiser Family Foundation Study, Jan. 2010 
• The Horizon Report, 2010 Edition, The New Media Consortium/EduCause Learning Initiative 
• Teens and Mobile Phones, Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2010

Youth Friendly Cell Phones

First Post

"Despite the revolutions wrought by technology in medicine, engineering, communication, and many other fields the classrooms, textbooks, and lectures of today are little different than those of our parents. Yet today's students use computers, mobile telephones, and other portable technical devices regularly for almost every form of communication except learning."
-- National Science Foundation Task Force on Cyberlearning


Today begins the first blog post of "Becoming A Mobile Worker."

This blog will feature news articles, quotes, links, books and stories on the I-Generation and the way they communicate using cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, and hand-held wireless mobile devices that access the internet. More importantly, this blog will examine how mobile workers are taking advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile and Web 2.0 technologies.

This blog is an outgrowth of a workshop I've developed for the Franklin Hampshire Career Center in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where I am employed as a Youth Coordinator.

The accompanying photo is a youth protest in New Jersey inspired by Facebook.