Claudia may be right! The growth of social media technology brought about that peer learning and learning by doing gained particular importance. I am referring to the question that she poses at the end of her post http://cacostasaad.blogspot.com/2008/09/expectations.html.
Particularly interesting in this context might be a quote from the article Teacher Educator, vol. 39, no. 3, Winter 2004 where authors Jayne R. Beilke and Matthew J. Stuve point out that "inner-city youth often reject traditional forms of literacy canonized by schools" (158). I believe I am able to confirm this observation with my own experience when I showed my 12 year old step-daughter how to work with "blogger". She was very interested in using social media, but the fact that a parental figure would set it up for her made my particular media choice less interesting for her. She would rather pursue platforms chosen by her friends and class mates.
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This might be true but showing her how she can send an email to her friends to let them know they can come to her site and comment on things she says by 'subscribing to the rss' feed allows them to view what she's written. Like facebook, if what she writes intrigues them, she has begun something they might want to do too-establishing the peer-peer.
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