Digital World
After reading, "Adolescents and literacies in a digital World" by King and O'Brien, I am left slightly confused. I agree with much of what they say about changing the old styles of teaching literacy. It is these old styles that teach "illiteracy." I personally think the articles used a little too much jargon. I think it would have been easier to read if you did not have to go back and figure out what each sentence actually meant.
According to the first article, teachers use the word "play" to refer to technology. This is a backwards way of thinking. I agree with the article that students should not just be playing with technology, they should be using it as a learning tool. I think that technology can be used to prepare students for jobs, and it can be used to prepare ALL students. The article also discusses tracking, and the fact that students who are not college bound are not even taught how to get a decent job.
Most of what the article disclosed about schools was not a surprise to me. I know there are better ways of "managing" education, but the hard part is facilitating change.
posted by Lauren at 8:17 PM
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In a way I think that older generations choose to see technology as a form of "play" simply because they do not know the benefits of it, they assume that something their students do outside of the classroom is non-educational and it's possible that they don't want to spend their energy trying to learn something new when they already went through college and getting their masters to be where they are now.
My Aunt is a student teacher supervisor who just retired from teaching high school and she often tells me that although she is beside herself when she see's the student teachers using all forms of technology in the classroom, she is also overwhelmed by it and happy she got out when she did. haha!
You are so right about the difficulty of facilitating change.
I encourage you to share passages from the text you feel are difficult to penetrate--or full of jargon.
These chapters need more than one pass over. I agree.
But unless you unpack them here -- or in class as we did only superficially Wed. night -- we won't grow in being able to read demanding texts.
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