Gaming literacy, in other words, “games”literacy, bending and breaking rules, playing with our notions of whatliteracy has been and can be.
This is something I want to make sure I communicate to my students. I want them to feel like they can have fun, take risks, and view literacy as an enjoyable experience.
What does gaming look like? butinstead: What does the world look like from the point of view of gaming?
This is an interesting concept. It's important to consider what the gaming experience will be and feel like for my students so I can be more knowledgeable when they have questions or constructive feedback for me.
approach to literacy based on game design. Myargument is that there is an emerging set of skills and competencies, a setof new ideas and practices that are going to be increasingly a part of what itmeans to be literate in the coming century.
I completely agree. Digital literacy and citizenship is becoming increasingly more important for students to learn in order to be set up for success outside of the classroom.
t means to be told things rather than to find them out for yourself. It positions the teacher as an authority figure and the student as a beneficiary of the knowledge they convey. It involves the transmission of knowledge from the knowing expert to the as- yet- unknowing novice. And of course, in a certain perspective education is, inevitably and always, all of these things. However, the critics of didactic pedagogy seize on its peculiar emphases that position students as passive recipients of knowledge and compliant objects of authority
This concept reminds me very much so of when I was a student. There were not many leadership opportunities, collaborative learning, and the teacher rarely facilitated the learning. Instead, it was more of a lecture. This is an approach that I try to stray from as much as possible. I find the best lessons I plan are when my students are taking control of the environment and I am there as a means of support and guidance to the learning.
Besides, it was becoming obvious that traditional literacy peda-gogy was not working to achieve its stated goal of providing social oppor-tunity. Inequalities in education were growing, suggesting that something needed to be done in literacy pedagogy to address this.
This truly speaks to the student population in the district I currently work in. Traditional literacy approaches tend to not hold relevancy with my students and I'm constantly trying to find new ways to have them engage with a text that feels purposeful.
one right way to write, and an idealized canon of authors conven-tionally considered ‘great’.
This is a concept I constantly find myself struggling with. I do believe students should master different forms of writing (argumentative, informative, etc.), but I also believe it's crucial to provide opportunities for students to write in a way that is familiar to them. Personally, I tend to care more about the message my student is trying to send, and less about spelling and grammar in the moment. I believe conventions are important, but can always be fixed later. The interpretation of a text better represents a students ability to interact with literacy in my opinion. I always tell my students "we can always make it pretty later, I care about your reaction to what you just read more right now."
Multimodal Found Poetry Slam!
I'm really enjoying the diversity of the assignments in this course. I look forward to stepping out of my comfort zone and learning new ways to engage my students with literacy using different platforms.
Make a Podcast
This is exciting to me. I've only recently started following/listening to podcasts regularly, and I often think it would be an excellent way for students to discuss their thinking in response to a text with a group.
course fosters foundational knowledge in understanding digital and multimodal texts and their role in the changing landscape of 21st century reading instruction.
This speaks to me so much! Even though I'm only going into my sixth year of teaching, the ways in which technology has evolved and improved is incredible. With reading instruction specifically, I feel like there's something new to every year to improve instruction and incorporate technology into a lesson.
digital and multimodal literacy practices
Throughout teaching during the pandemic, I feel like I've never pushed and stretched myself more in regards to utilizing technology. In some ways I feel like I've grown and become fluent with many different digital tools, but in other ways I feel like I've only scratched the surface. I look forward to learning new ways to incorporate technology into literacy with my students.