Response #3
As an educator, I have both an interest in teaching and in learning as well. I love dispensing knowledge as much as I love taking it in. It is easy to see that technology is becoming more accessible for and more understood by today’s youth. Many times, even more so than for adults. In this week’s reading, it was brought out in regards a school project in Oslo, some “of the students were reasonably familiar with programming, knowing more than their teacher” (Lankshear & Knobel, 2013, pg. 49). It can be challenging for teachers who are not as “tech-savvy” to keep up with changing media and how to roll with it in the classroom. But it would be a shame for teachers to close their minds to the new avenues of credible and relevant literacies digital media can offer. If educators explored these media outlets provided online, they could create curriculum engaging and enriching to students and pave the way for a deeper connection with them. Chapter One showed me how Multimodal Play ...