Learning Task #2 Minds-on “New Literacies Definition and Components”
Which ideas from the video reflect what the ELA teachers you interviewed are currently doing to integrate technology with their literacy instruction?
Currently the ELA teachers I interviewed are curriculum mapping and they are trying to enforce more writing. One of the topics they are trying to include is using quotes from the internet and allowing students to evaluate its meaning.
Can you help change their instructional practices to include the use of technology and the Internet in their literacy and content-area curriculum?
Yes I can in fact I didn’t realize that a few teachers in the English department didn’t know how to use a smart board. I recently helped two teachers use a smart board. I showed them how to recalibrate and tools used for writing. I just recently got a smart board in my electronics lab. The smart board wasn’t working correctly but after working with the IT worker in my building I understood how to use the tool much better
What professional development and/or resources will they need in order to make these changes?
Our school offers professional development for the use of smart boards but I also showed them a website with links. http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/games_for_smart_boards/
What ideas do you have for grouping students so they will have equal access to technology in the classroom?
Students can share a laptop so less technology is needed and research as a team to develop ideas.
That's very interesting that they ask students to find quotes from Internet and evaluate its meaning. As I clarified on the definition of "new literacies," assuming students have no problems reading (meaning they are reading at the grade level with comprehension, which is the traditional literacy), they go on Internet (which is using ICT) to research quotes they need, locate the ones they think they would best met the teachers' requirements, evaluate them, synthesize the quotes with what teachers what them to relate to, and then communicate/express their quotes (in Voki, or voice thread, or youtube video, or whatever creative ways). In that case, the teachers are having students practicing "new literacies." Meaning students use "new literacies" to enhance their understanding and application of what they learned in specific topic/subject/content/context.
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