Multimediators

Students learn more when they are engaged and motivated to learn. In other words, using technology will help students with literacy difficulties. O'Brien discusses students in reading lab situations that excelled in literacy skills when they were presented with projects that they were interested in. Helping students to excel in reading and writing in today's world means bringing technology into the classroom.

In my opinion, if the "struggling" students do not know how to use technology, they will want to learn because their peers are using technology constantly. So, whether they are completely familiar with technology or not will not effect their overall motivation.

For the most part, we will be dealing with the multimediators. These will be students who “multi-task” much more than I do (which are quite a lot). Therefore, in order to gain attention it will be important to give students projects where they can use multiple skills. "When students perceived that they were successful, and they set personally relevant goals, and see that they were improving, they would read and write more..."(O'Brien 30). Students will want to be successful, so give them something they can excel at....Technology!

According to O'Brien our content in skills needs to change because the brains of our students are changing. The human mind may be biologically different now than it was back when the canonical texts were the most important things. Our students are capable of much more than just reading a book and responding. We need to make sure that we push our students to excel by giving them literacy projects using technology.