Week 14 2018 Supporting your own learning

This week (the last week of readings) is all about how you will continue to support your own learning about digital and multimodal literacies.  These literacies are key to success, as you already know, in the 21st Century. Digital and Multimodal/New Literacies are continually changing--even the apps or websites or programs that you think you know are updated regularly, sometimes to the point where you have to relearn how to  use them.  Not only that, new tools (hardware, software, in the cloud) proliferate and old tools may become obsolete.  As teachers, we are life long learners (or we would not be doing what we do). Sometimes your school district or workplace decides what PD you will attend and sometimes you yourself do.  So think about what makes effective PD for you? How do you continue to learn about your profession?  How have  you used Twitter as a learning platform?  How do the readings suggest you continue to be a learner?


This week will be the last blog discussion you will have. During Week 15, I'll have a blog post for you to respond to. We will have touched base about your chapters at the face to face meeting, and will have discussed how to share your chapters as they are complete.

Have a good Thanksgiving.  I'm thankful for both of you and the work that you do to support the learning of all children/learners.  My mother will be here for the holiday and to celebrate her 93rd birthday on Nov. 25.  I'm including a picture of my Mom and I.  She still lives alone, is a basket weaver, knits and sews for her great-grandchildren (ages 18,14, 4,and 1) and honorary great-grandchildren, reads the newspaper daily (and has at least 2 books going)and is a faithful attendee of women's soccer, basketball, and softball at Texas A&M University (where she lives). I could tell you all about the  gutsy stuff she has done (she was the first woman in her small town in Iowa to go to college and she worked for the FBI in Washington, DC during World War 2, for example) that makes her a role model of her time.