Changing Literacies; Changing Pedagogies

Chapter 7: 

" Such experience could equip them to consider ways in which teacher-learner relationships could be reconfigured, and to find practical ways of using technology transformatively in the classroom." (Burnett, 2009, Pg. 121) 

This quote needs to be prefaced by the rest of the paragraph. It is the last sentence. However, we should hope that pre-teachers or student teachers or any teachers  would use their experience to equip them. I like this quote because even though they don't think their personal technology experience is necessarily equipping them, it is. I'm sure every teacher can look back over the week and come up with several examples of something in their lives, in or out of school, that helped them in the teacher-learner relationships they had that week. 

Chapter 8: 

"The goal should be to provide those emerging educators with enhanced knowledge and experience to enable them to participate in a regeneration of literacy teaching that takes account of the two 'multis' referred to at the beginning of this article: multimodality and multiple ways of being and acting in the world." (Kerin, 2009, Pg. 142-143) 

Supports my beliefs and my actions of Professional Development for current teachers. If they don't know, they can't teach it to the students. 

Chapter 9: 

". . . how do we imagine the relationship of so-called 'new literacies' (Lankshear and Knobel, 2003) to more conventional print-based literacies? In broad strokes, we can describe four common stances on this relationship that are part of our current teaching and research imaginations: resistance, replacement, return and remediation." (Leander, 2009, Pg. 147) 

I found it interesting to read the paragraphs that followed this quote describing these four stances. I have teachers in my building that fit in all four categories. Quite interesting to think about when mixing the old with the new.

My Personal Digital Literacies

The main example of using digital technologies that reflect digital practices outside of school that I use is research on the Internet. But since I think everyone does this I'm going to use an example from my church activities. I work with children's ministries at my church. My husband is the minister and my daughter is the family life co-ordinator. You might say I am a technology assistant to both. I have had the opportunity to use images to display meanings during many presentations for and with both of them. The most recent was the "Potter and the Clay" scripture and this image.  I didn't really think about it until I was participating in the service and had a chance to actually watch it take place. It dawned on me I was using this image to convey a message. I really don't ever look at a similar image without thinking about how we are molded by God.

I also use a website "sermons4kids.com" that follows the lectionary. I download the children's bulletin, print it and e-mail the link for the activities to the person in charge of Children's Church that Sunday. Twenty years ago I subscribed to a company that would send a booklet. After getting two full cycles of years A, B & C, I stopped the subscription and reused the booklets. About six years ago I found this website with up-to-date messages.   

I feel better prepared after two classes from Dr. Lindstrom to help teachers design, construct and critique digital text than I would have a year ago. This will be an ongoing professional development I will present to the teachers at my school. I think this will help them in their classes with their students. 

During a digital literacy lesson the group of 12th graders I worked with created memes to convey their knowledge. I used the required topic of Cyber Bullying and this podcast from NPR 

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/396413638/publicly-shamed-who-needs-the-pillory-when-weve-got-twitter 

  

Here is a meme a student created.

Illuminated Text