Week #3: Assignment #1 Theory and Practice of New Literacies

  1. Read the following articles and write a brief summary of the following three articles (one paragraph) to demonstrate your understanding of the concept and the importance of new literacies
  
As future generations continue to evolve, ne literacies that include media technologies are being used in classroom settings as an effective tool to meet the educational needs of students. According to the article Literacy Instruction with Digital and Media Technologies, by Barone and Wright, these new literacies include innovative text formats, new activities, new reader expectations, communication using emails, chats, and text, the use of word processing programs, and a tool to use for locating information using internet sources. In addition to bringing new literacies in classrooms, it’s important for teachers to be prepared to use the technology. Some challenges teachers have faced include lack of technology knowledge and how to make it effective in lesson plans, being fearful of new technologies, inadequate technological and pedagogical knowledge, lack of planning or scheduling, and simply sticking to traditional rather than matching new literacy expectations. The main goal in using new literacies in classrooms is to ensure students are offered equal opportunities to all students and meet their needs while teachers embrace these changes. According to the article New Literacies of the 21st-Century Technologies, by the International Reading Association, there are four common elements that apply to all current perspectives being used to inform the broader dimensions of new literacies research. These elements include the following:
   1)      The Internet and other ICTs require new social practices, skills, strategies, and dispositions for their effective use.
   2)       New literacies are central to full civic, economic, and personal participation in a global community.
   3)      New literacies rapidly change as defining technologies change.
   4)      New literacies are multiple, multimodal, and multifaceted; thus, they benefit from multiple lenses seeking to understand how to better support our students in a digital age.
As new ICTs continuously emerge and evolve, it’s important for educators to pay attention to these changes and integrate ICTs into the curriculum while being prepared for the effective integration of these new technologies into the classroom. Therefore having adequate staff development and education will ensure each teacher is prepared to effectively integrate new literacies in the curriculum as noted in the article Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and Other Information and Communication Technologies, by Leu, Kinzer, and Coiro.

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