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  1. Nov 2016
    1. For example, teaching digital skills would include showing students how to download images from the Internet and insert them into PowerPoint slides or webpages. Digital literacy would focus on helping students choose appropriate images, recognize copyright licensing, and cite or get permissions, in addition to reminding students to use alternative text for images to support those with visual disabilities.

      This text highlights the difference between Digital skills and Digital literacy. It is important to note the difference in order to teach someone who is unaware of these tools. If a student can use both his digital skills and digital literacy effectively it can potentially earn him a good grade if he is presenting some information in class.

  2. Oct 2016
    1. Managing Dependencies illustrates a sociotechnical capital tool that allows us to use our technology effectively. Under managing dependencies a notification is an affordance that is very convenient. This affordance alerts us on events that maybe important to us. For example we may be notified when our homework is due and could potentially save us from failing a class.

    1. They need to talk in order to learn. They need to hear the words coming out of their mouths, practice making arguments, giving reasons, and hearing reasons from others to whom they do not feel an immediate inclination to defer (i.e. not just me). And, of course, in fact, I did all these things, and learned a lot from them, just not really in class.

      The author realizes that everybody has different ways of learning , many students need to discuss and elaborate on what they just read to fully understand the text. The author realizes that discussion is an important factor in understanding the text. Merely reading it isn't enough. Critical thinking and discussion is necessary to fully understand what is being read.

  3. Sep 2016
    1. y people are now firmly in the foreground, their institutions mere reflections of the need to formalise and stabilise their relationships. More and more historians are seeking to describe society as a whole, being no longer concerned exclusively either with the squirarchy or with the root- less poor, with conspicuous consumption or with crises of subsistence

      Social Historians are now trying to define society as a whole, as compared to the past where they would just focus on just either the rich or the poor. I may be misinterpreting it but it also states how people are barely learning to live together " the need to formalise and stabilise their relationships

    1. as students learn different subjects at different rates and learn best using different methods of instruction.

      This statement proves why Carnegie units are outdated and no longer favored by scholars. Now people learn at different rates and therefore the carnegie unit should be dejected. Since people learn at different rates its not fair that the students who understand the subject have to stay and complete the carnegie units when they already completely understand the subject. In a way the carnegie unit hinders them from progressing and taking more units because they have to complete a carnegie unit.

    1. We do not just want to teach students “literacy” or “critical thinking," but to read, to enjoy, and to learn from actual literature; and not just from “literature,” but from actual texts. To reduce literature to literacy misses the point entirely and denies students meaningful access to the liberal arts

      I agree with this statement because today I see many students take a class to "pass" it, but I believe students should take a class to actually learn something they have an interest in. They shouldn't just take a course to receive a letter grade but instead should take the course to actively engage and truly enjoy the material they are learning. They take the course because they like it, not because they have too.

    1. who multitask actually prove more inefficient than people who focus on one task at a time.

      In some situations, multitasking can create a hazardous environment. For example, if people worked with heavy machinery and didn't apply one-hundred percent of their focus they could injure a co-worker around them.

    2. people in general, and our students in particular, can and do function productively and learn efficiently doing several things at once.

      I agree with this "axiom", even though our brain is not a muscle it works like a muscle. We must keep it busy with different activities and constantly exercise our learning abilities and challenge our thinking process to maximize our multitasking skills.