Week 3
Articles Summary
I found the articles to be fairly informative on the topic of "new emerging literacies" in the classroom. Literacy is changing from a traditional paper and pencil to digital and media technologies that can be accessed by the click of a link on the internet. It is the teachers responsibility to help students access these literacies through the internet, but as the articles points out, students only access the computer/internet for 12 minutes per week. This is a very uncomfortable number for me because there is no feasible way to introduce and work with these new literacies the article mentions when there is no scheduled time for students to access and explore these things. In Todd's classroom he has a great classroom website that each student has access to on their laptops. This includes learning centers, writing prompts, graphic organizers, digital worksheets, URLs, media files, and corrected work. I think that it serves as a great supplemental resource to paper, pencils, and books. He has the students focus on a particular topic like vocabulary and they promote literacy through the laptops. Students were asked to take a vocab work and use a word processor in order make a sentence to show understanding of the word. The students then open a drawing application to create a picture to show a nonlinguistic representation of the word. When the class is responsible for reading, they are introduced to a topic by using a graphic organizer and then are paired up to collaborate and communicate through IM. Having laptops for each student allows a great opportunity to take the traditional literacy practices that are done on paper and pencil and infuse technology into them, making them more appealing for students. I think this approach will result in a more engaged learning environment that more students will appreciate and open up to. Once schools can afford to give each student a laptop, these new literacies can successfully be implemented and not replace old literacies, but supplement them to enhance the learning experience.
I found the articles to be fairly informative on the topic of "new emerging literacies" in the classroom. Literacy is changing from a traditional paper and pencil to digital and media technologies that can be accessed by the click of a link on the internet. It is the teachers responsibility to help students access these literacies through the internet, but as the articles points out, students only access the computer/internet for 12 minutes per week. This is a very uncomfortable number for me because there is no feasible way to introduce and work with these new literacies the article mentions when there is no scheduled time for students to access and explore these things. In Todd's classroom he has a great classroom website that each student has access to on their laptops. This includes learning centers, writing prompts, graphic organizers, digital worksheets, URLs, media files, and corrected work. I think that it serves as a great supplemental resource to paper, pencils, and books. He has the students focus on a particular topic like vocabulary and they promote literacy through the laptops. Students were asked to take a vocab work and use a word processor in order make a sentence to show understanding of the word. The students then open a drawing application to create a picture to show a nonlinguistic representation of the word. When the class is responsible for reading, they are introduced to a topic by using a graphic organizer and then are paired up to collaborate and communicate through IM. Having laptops for each student allows a great opportunity to take the traditional literacy practices that are done on paper and pencil and infuse technology into them, making them more appealing for students. I think this approach will result in a more engaged learning environment that more students will appreciate and open up to. Once schools can afford to give each student a laptop, these new literacies can successfully be implemented and not replace old literacies, but supplement them to enhance the learning experience.
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