Blog Post 2 - How New Literacies are Relevant to Us
How New Literacies are Relevant to Us I decided to read the second article, 'Improving Digital Practices for Literacy, Learning and Justice' and the third article, 'Digital Literacy'. One of the biggest take aways I pulled from both of these readings is the idea that we're preparing our students for their futures. I think so often we view our students as children that will stay children forever and the idea of preparing them for life, especially in the younger grade levels can be lost a bit. It's always in the back of our minds as educators but have we all really sat with the gravity of the statement that these children are our future doctors, lawyers, business owners, teachers, farmers, salespeople, etc.? Both of these readings also talk about the impact of technologies outside of the schools and in the workplace. In virtually any job, there is going to be some sort of technological requirements - are the students we're putting out into the world to ...
