It's a New World

As technology is expanding each and every day, it is our job as teachers to keep up with these changes. The technological advances that happen in the world around us effect us directly as they bring in new literacies that our students have already begun to understand. As the world has grown to learn with the new advancements we as teachers must know that the definition surrounding being literate is directly affecting our practices. Students not only have to learn the content but also know how to understand it when branched out beyond the single text. The multimedia success has allowed for a better degree in learning but we must teach our students that learning just like we would the text. Using technology helped in making me become a teacher because my teacher in the fourth grade really used technology as a key aspect in our learning. As the chapter discussed the internet can be a big part in aiding in the inquiry method and that was what really expanded my learning then. The different modes of technology, such as, video, blogs, internet, sound, etc. reaches a new type of literacy students are faced with.

As a teacher, I want to put the use of literacies in the classroom by making it relevant. Now with many classroom having all of these literacies at the fingertips of the students it is our job to create a curriculum that allows them to have to greatest success in learning and thinking with these new assets. I thought it was interesting to read about the nonlinear characteristics of the new literacies. Although, I am part of the technological generation, it is important to instruct and teach students about the new literacies are different from the text and how they should be viewed and looked at to expand their learning and thinking. As a teacher we cannot just have technology in our classroom it has to be apart of the students learning environment that will help in their thinking and expand their knowledge about our content area subject.