Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices 1-3 and Illuminated Text

Chapter One-

“ As is evident when watching a child learning to play a video game, there are few times when children will sit down and be given step- by-step instructions by a tutor or instruction booklet.” – Rebekah Willett

I think this is how most children learn now. Monkey see, monkey do. I feel that this has happened because most children do tinker with technology on a daily basis without adult supervision. I think that schools need to take this into consideration when thinking about how to instruct their students. First demonstrate and let them try the concept in a hands on approach.

Chapter Two-

…” I and others have noted about online learning collaboration that each individual can achieve more by interacting with others”…- Gee, Williamson, and Facer.

 The push now in school is to operate our classrooms in a center based manor, where students are working together. This past year I can speak from experience my children loved to work in small groups and centers they seemed to thrive off of the experience, and even began to teach each other even in the first grade. I see this as being the way of the future.

Chapter Three-

“The creation of a child’s profile page can be viewed as a form of text production that occurs beyond these institutions and that differs from curriculum-directed text- production. “ – Clare Dowdall

This surprised me and the whole chapter really did too, although if you look at the dates from the references in this chapter they are somewhat dated. I think there needs to be a collaboration of the two schools of thought, and online literacy participation needs to be incorporated into everyday school practices.

After reading this week’s assignment, I can see from the examples that the book gives that children’s technology usage outside of school is still considered as being a separate being. I feel that the younger generation of teachers needs to challenge this notion and be an example to all that incorporating interactive or online social learning is here to stay and will really benefit the learner. Why would we not instruct our students in the way that they show interest. The reading didn’t really change my mind on technology incorporation, just reinforced the thought.

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