Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Teacher Challenges of the New Literacies
After reading the online article by Julie Coiro, I have become even more aware of how crucial it is for teachers to develop new literacies in order to support the efforts of their students. The article suggests that teachers should be expertly guiding students in their webquests, as one example, and in assisting students in learning new reading comprehension competencies associated with their Internet experiences. How do we develop these competencies in order to facilitate and guide our students' learning? What role does the school district play in providing the resources, the time and support for teachers to pursue these new learnings before they are mandated by the CMT's? It seems inevitable that we take a more active role for our learning and set goals for making progress with our learning and teaching of the new literacies each year.
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Ruth,
One thing that I grabbed my attention from this week's reading is the idea of intellectual navigation vs. physical navigation. Several of the teachers mentioned in the text, talked about showing the students the more technical aspects of understanding how the net works. That is quite different from teaching them how to understand the text that they are reading in a cyber-format. What do you think?
K
One thing that I grabbed my attention from this week's reading is the idea of intellectual navigation vs. physical navigation. Several of the teachers mentioned in the text, talked about showing the students the more technical aspects of understanding how the net works. That is quite different from teaching them how to understand the text that they are reading in a cyber-format. What do you think?
K
Hi Ruth,
You are a living example of someone who takes a proactive stance towards technology- I think by setting goals and working towards them you will be able to help to shape the ways in which technology will be used in classrooms when and if new literacies are assessed. I loved your idea of trying out a WebQuest in RDG 412. They might do it in class with you if you reserve a lab for a couple of sessions or you could somehow post it on a website to be accessed and completed as homework. THat might be a focus for your major project for htis class.
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You are a living example of someone who takes a proactive stance towards technology- I think by setting goals and working towards them you will be able to help to shape the ways in which technology will be used in classrooms when and if new literacies are assessed. I loved your idea of trying out a WebQuest in RDG 412. They might do it in class with you if you reserve a lab for a couple of sessions or you could somehow post it on a website to be accessed and completed as homework. THat might be a focus for your major project for htis class.
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