You have done quite a bit of reading, blogging, writing, and
discussing aspects related to literacy and technology. We looked at New Literacies and new literacies, and the important skills and social practices that are a part of both. You practiced with Web 2.0 tools and tried out ideas in your own practice. I'm quite impressed at what you all did and the willingness you had to try out different tools and social practices. Finally, we read about and you are writing multimodal works. I'm really looking forward to your iBook chapters. I'd like you to reflect about your learning over
the course of the semester and respond to these questions:
1. What
are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about
New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to
you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early
childhood educator, or elementary educator?
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
Remember
that we are meeting on Adobe Connect on Friday, Dec. 11 at 5:00
pm. I'm looking forward to your sharing of your projects at that time. Here is the link to the video on how to access Adobe Connect. Remember that the dates etc are for my first hybrid class last fall.
Have a good week.
What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I think I took away from new literacies in this course is the understanding that it doesn’t just mean the use of technology in your classroom. I think this is important to me because I always considered technology as something to just use as an add on, not so much as something to plan to use to achieve a certain learning goal. The second big take away is that everything I just learned about could change by next semester. New literacies are ever changing and the needs of our students are too. I will have to continue professional development to stay on top of new tools and methods in the future. Then the final thing that meant the most to me was learning more about critical literacy through the research of my topic for the iBook. Before this course I had a idea of what it was but now I have a understanding of it and why it is so important for all educational domains. I think going forward I will have a better understanding of how to support and promote critical literacy in my classroom and that will be great for my students.
Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
My goal at the beginning of the semester was just to learn to work with technology more. I think this course gave me lots of opportunities to do this and puling all our resource reviews together gives me an excellent database to use for planning lessons.
1. What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteThe first idea that I have learned about throughout this semester is how broad the term literacy is in the 21st century classroom. Understanding this concept is very important to me as an early childhood educator because I want to establish a strong educational foundation for my students. This class had opened my eyes to the affordances that technology offer students today and how I can foster that development.
The second concept that I have learned about throughout this semester is that New/new Literacies/literacies is not just about implementation of technology in the classroom. It is so much more than that. This class has taught me to understand and appreciate New Literacies and understand that it is not just implementing technology it’s about students creatively collaborating and learning in our world today and learning in multimodal ways.
The third idea that I have learned throughout this class is the importance of the social practices and the 5 C’s. I think about these things as I plan, implement, and reflect on my teaching. These concepts have helped me become a better teacher and I plan on continuing my development in this area.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
At the beginning of this semester I wasn’t really sure exactly what to expect. I knew I wanted to learn how to implement technology into my classroom. But I did not expect to understand that it’s not just about how to implement technology in my classroom! Lol I get it now. I have learned about MANY new apps, websites, tools, etc…and am eager to see how my students utilize them! I also feel a more comfortable with these technologies and enjoy being a learner myself.
What are the three most important ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important? How will they inform your practices as a teacher?
ReplyDelete1) I first assumed that New Literacies meant technology solely. One of the biggest takeaways for me is that it does not have to involve technology, although it could. It is more focused on the 5 C’s and incorporating them in your classroom in a meaningful and intentional way. I have always been very worried about introducing too much technology in the classroom in ways that don’t bring anything more to the classroom, so it was important that I learned it doesn’t have to be that way.
2) I enjoyed and gained a lot from reading and learning about the social practices. I think that, especially for early childhood when the children are learning to be okay human beings, it is always important to think about the social aspects of learning and the classroom. The social practices listed are great for the classroom and relate to stuff I already do in my class (alternative perspectives, making connections, etc.).
3) One of the most useful parts of this class was learning about all the different types and genres of resources that are out there that we can use in the classroom. I learned about different websites, apps, lessons, etc. that I can see myself implementing in my class because I think that they either go along with what we already do, strengthen the concepts I am trying to teach, or lead to a different method or perspective about teaching.
Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
1) I think that one of my goals was to learn about resources for the classroom and implications, which (like I mentioned before), was definitely achieved.
2) Another one of my goals was to learn about how to meaningfully incorporate technology in the classroom. This has also been accomplished and goes along with what I mentioned before about resources and making it meaningful.
1.What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteAs a result of taking this course, I have been able to get a more concretized meaning of what New Literacies and new literacies are. Even though this class was about literacy and technology, I’ve learned that new literacies encompass more than just technological tools. As an elementary teacher it is important to know that they are countless avenues we can take to ensure that our students are able to comprehend the information being taught.
In addition, through my research I was able to investigate how new literacy practices can help with home-school communication. Being more aware of the new literacy practices will defiantly help me to become a more effective teacher. With the information I have gained, I can also help and encourage my future colleges to engage in new literacy practices that will also help them strengthen home-school communication.
Last, I was been able to expand my knowledge as I learned about the 5C’s and six social practices, especially as they pertained to my research topic. It is important to know how new literacy practices affect students’ learning because then teachers are better equipped to help their students succeed. I will use these practices to help guide me in choosing the appropriate new literacy tools for my future students.
2.Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
I think I have been able to meet the goals that I set in the beginning. I not only learned about New Literacies new literacies but I learned a whole lot of everything regarding new literacy practices, and how they can be integrate into the classroom setting to enhance learning and communication. I think I also wanted to meet new people and that I did. I enjoyed working in my small work groups and learning about everyone’s experiences in and outside of the classroom.
1. What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteThe most important idea I learned is the overarching concept of NL/nl. Specifically, I had no idea about what NL/nl (or, literacy 2.0, or 21st century literacy) would be before taking this course. However, now I can describe the differences between traditional literacy and New Literacy/new literacies. One takeaway about NL is the fact that NL even includes our “mindset” towards the diverse “texts.” For example, now we can think of sending an email or a twitter message to a book author with ease, which was not easily conductible before NL/nl appears.
Also, understanding of the 6 social practices of digital tools was fruitful to me, because it gave me a good guideline. As a teacher living in the 21st century, I realized that I should incorporate the 6 practices whenever I use digital tools.
Lastly, deconstructing the concept of “texts” was another takeaway for me. “Texts” can be, not just the letters, but also anything that can convey meanings, e.g., symbols, drawings, and shapes. The discussion about this notion was groundbreaking to me; thus, whenever I incorporate the NL/nl concepts/tools, I will apply and foster “texts” notion for my student.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
My goals were two: to know and follow the current trend of Literacy and Technology, and to come up with how to effectively and practically assess my students’ learning using digital tools. Throughout this course, the first goal is sufficiently met, because I clearly learned what NL/nl means and what to consider and how to do when designing classes with the NL/nl concepts. The class readings and projects (twitter, blogging, and others) were effectively tied into this understandings well. Also, understanding of the 6 social practices and 4Cs helped me accomplish this goal as well.
For the second goal, developing the effective and practical ways to assess, I realized that teachers’ close involvement is still the key factor regardless of what tools we incorporate. Although we can benefit from using the cutting edge tools to archive students’ performances and give feedback, still, the critical interactions or insights are purely coming from teachers. Throughout the course, reading and discussing the related topics, I have come up with this realization. Hence, the focus is not the tool itself, but how we use it as a “tool” of meaning-making, assessing, giving feedback, and fostering NL/nl notions.
During the course, I personally incorporated a blogging activity for my students who learned speaking and listening skills at CESL. Blogging for speaking class? I was a bit hesitated to try, but just gave it a try because I believe that writing is inner-speech. Students’ responses were beyond the expectations. Although the objectives of my class was on listening and speaking skills, my students enjoyed the blog discussions in academic ways, and a majority of them reported blogging was very meaningful for them to learn English. So, I again realized that incorporating nl tools, with a clear purpose and social practices embedded, can engage students, which will contribute to their learning.
1. What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteJust the fact that I know what New Literacies/new literacies means is important to me. I have also gotten to learn about a lot of apps that I had never heard of before and found a lot of resources I can use in my professional and academic lives. I've learned how to engage better online as well and gotten to study the way interactivity contributes to learning from the perspective of a teacher rather than the one learning, which has taught me so very much.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
I don't know how well I remember my goals, but I know I wanted to learn what educators look for in an educational video game, and what I have learned was something I was not expecting. The stigma of video games and the fear of the unknown world of learning independently (aka: losing control) have made a lot of people overlook interactive narrative learning. Beyond that, there's still so many shoddy studies out there that claim things about video games that aren't true or that are very one sided. It was eye opening.
I've learned so much from my new teacher friends. I almost wish we had been in a classroom so I could have seen them in person more, but I learned a lot from being online too. For example, I'm about to go into the Adobe chat. I'm losing my mind with anxiety, but I'm doing it. I've been on video chat a few times now, and each time, I lose my mind; but it's never that bad. I don't think the phobia will leave, but I know that it's not as bad as my mind makes it out to be. It's better than the phone at least, which is my original phobia. Can't delete spoken words, lol, but at least on video chat, I can read body language whereas on the phone, I can't.
1. What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteThe 6 social practices are important to me because, like I said, they helped solidify for me exactly what skills and habits students need to have when they engage with new literacies. They will hopefully help me support teachers as they foster 21st century literacy practices in their classrooms if/when I become a literacy coach. I also liked learning about all of the specific technology and apps that we can use to support reading and writing, and it increased my teacher toolkit tenfold. That is useful in my classroom, and it will continue to be useful regardless of any future career changes, since technology tools will always be applicable to teaching. Finally, a big take-away for me is that multimodality and interactivity can open up a wide range of learning and communication opportunities. That is useful for me as a teacher, and it is useful for my students as learners.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
At the beginning of the semester, I believe I wanted to know how to incorporate technology to support literacy skills. I feel like I am very well equipped to do that now. I know of several tools for all purposes, and now I understand the importance of seamlessly integrating literacy skills, NL skills, and technology skills together. I feel like our readings, our discussions, and my own research have prepared me to better support my students' literacy skills, but they have also prepared me to support the 21st century New Literacy skills my students need to know.
1. What are the three most important ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDelete-I learned that the term literacy encompasses all modalities, even auditory, in the 21st century. The face of literacy is ever-changing and I feel like I am more prepared to teach my students to be productive consumers, now that I am more aware of this. This pushes me to be more open in my instructional activities because students are not only expected to be able to read and write text nowadays.
-I learned that the TPACK framework is super helpful as a starting point when trying to plan for implementation of new literacy tools. This is going to be in the back of my mind as I plan for the use of them in the future.
-I also learned the difference between New Literacies and new literacies (finally), which is so important as educators moving forward in our digital age. Literacy is changing, so I need to know what it now includes, looks like, and how to best prepare my students for success in the future.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
I think I have in that I have grown in my knowledge of new literacies, and have worked to incorporate (as best I can) tools into my instruction. I wanted to extend my knowledge of new literacies and new literacy tools, and I have definitely been able to do so after this course. I now know of ways to incorporate NL tools into my classroom with my students as a way to extend and assess learning - woo!
I have learned so much about the multiple perspectives of new literacies of the 21st century during this semester. Like many of us, my definition of what it means to be literate was to have the abilities to read and write; not much more. The 3 most important areas of NL and new literacies would be:
ReplyDelete1. To adequately prepare students for the world of work in the 21st century, students must be able to have experience in open spaces on the Internet; not only to gain information, but have the skills and strategies to navigate the open space efficiently and effectively. Students must be able to evaluate sites for bias, which means they must have an awareness and understanding of the influence that multimodal text can have on the reader. New Literacies is still “new” to the understandings of academic members of literacy---a definite new frontier to investigate.
2. I learned I could do it; not to say that I didn’t believe I could, but I don’t think I believed it would ever get easier. Asking my close colleagues, they may say, “That’s a maybe if it’s getting easier for her”, but when I look back on our first day of class, and setting up my Twitter account, which was almost like filing my tax return—long and arduous, I realize I have made significant progress. Knowing I can annotate a video with Zaption, create storyboards through Toontastic, create my own vocabulary cards using images within minutes with Poplet, and create an infographic (not in mintutes) are feelings of accomplishment. This is relevant because teachers must learn how to integrate technology and new literacies into their classrooms.
3. Teachers that do not embrace connecting technology with literacy are lagging behind. The horse is out of the barn. There are so MANY apps and tools---the sooner we embrace how we can embed these tools within our teaching to enhance it (not replace our teaching) the better it will be for both our students and ourselves. This is relevant because the role of the teacher is quickly changing. Teaching, learning, and educating children in the 21st century must connect the social practices that are a big part of what our generation of students will be facing as they enter the work force. The managerial positions are virtually gone---the world of work is looking for collaborators that can truly share in creating, share in problem-solving, and think critically with others to find solutions.
4. Technology is not an add-on, as I have been using it, but rather should be used as an enhancer to add to the acquisition of meaning. There are many opportunities to embed video, audio, multimedia, and multimodal text into the classroom. What I realize is the deterrent to implementing technology into the curriculum is the amount of time it takes to explore all the multitude of apps and applications. The overriding picture is---we have to take the time.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
I always thought that social media should be used by older students and adults for fun and entertainment. However, after taking this class, reading as much as I did about different the types of social media and their uses and conducting extensive research for my iBook chapter, I’ve realized that social media is much more than entertainment, it can play huge part in the education system getting students excited about learning, communicating and cooperating. I have also learned that new literacies doesn’t always have to involve the use of technology. Being innovative and creative in the way we as teachers render our lessons makes new literacies what it is. Finally, I have learned that the 5c’s and 6 social practices are essential guidelines to help us implement new literacies effectively in the classroom.
Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
I wanted to know the difference between NL and nl. With the extensive explanation and clarification I am now more knowledgeable of nl/NL. I am also more educated about the different tools (sites and apps) that are great to use in order to enhance students understanding and the ability to get them engaged.
1. What are the three most important (to you) ideas that you learned about New/new Literacies/literacies this semester? Why are they important to you? How will they inform your practice as a scholar/higher education instructor, reading specialist, early childhood educator, or elementary educator?
ReplyDeleteThis semester has been HUGE for me as far as new knowledge. New/new Literacies/literacies was a completely new topic for me coming into this course. I really did not think this class would be anything like it was. I truly thought it would be looking at how to incorporate technology into teaching reading and writing. The thought that literacy is more than the ability to read and write had never crossed my mind. As a result, I can't possibly limit my take-aways to a top 3. The general understanding of what nl/NL are is obviously huge, as well as the social practices and T-PACK. These have made a huge impression on me. Being exposed to areas of social media to which I had never been comfortable with, and being able to see how using social media in a positive manner to enhance instruction, has also been very important. Being asked to become an "expert" in an area and then share that information with others in a multimodal manner has been challenging and rewarding, and I'm thankful for the opportunity to be forced outside of my comfort zone.
2. Revisit the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. How have you met them?
DeleteIf I could remember what my goals were, I'd be more than happy to revisit them. lol
I honestly can't remember what they were. My mindset towards NL/nl is just so completely different now, it's hard to remember where I even was 4 months ago...