M2: Blog Post 2: How New Literacies Are Relevant to Us
“Instead of placing trust in the latest gadget, faith must be placed in the expertise of teachers to sustain classrooms that reflect the contexts of learning that are encountered outside of schools and in the real world.” (ILA, 2018) I could not love the quote above more. I’ve been in meetings where an administrator who doesn’t even understand how to use Google classroom is insistent that teachers should be using it more or using it better. Investing in teacher knowledge of new literacies is of great benefit to students. A teacher is best at integrating a tool into her curriculum. In the same piece, I was shocked to read about the argument how restricting use of student cell phones during free time might be “reinforcing power structures.” (ILA, 2018, pg. 5) It’s something I never would have considered but made sense as explained. I also chose to read Ch 1 of Lankshear and Knobel’s A New Literacies Sampler , as it seems to me that this is one of the influential, seminal sources of...
