Quote of the week #9

Quote of the week #9
“The crucial role of schools in the world of the evolving web is not only to use it to engage students and support their learning, but to guide students in ethical and socially responsible use of the increasingly complex and global worlds of the web.” (Asselin & Moayeri, 2011)

• I choose this statement, simply because the schools are the places the students will become engaged in learning and the appropriate way to use information literacy. Students must learn with the power to post they also need to learn to be socially responsible .One of the things I have learned through painful experience is to learn how to carefully craft our words to adequately meet our purposes. Nuances such as irony can be easily lost in text and the intention of one person’s comments can be misinterpreted by others

Asselin , M., & Moayeri, M. (2011). Practical strategies literacy learning: the middle years. 19(2), Retrieved from http://ictandliteracy.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/practical-strategies.pdf .


With the power to post in a public space, it becomes particularly important for students to understand the ethical and political context behind their work.

Retrieved from www.webimax.com

 

Then answer the following questions:
1. What makes a literacy practice a "new literacy"?

•   “New literacies” are those practices that facilitate thoughtful and critical participation and collaboration in the creation of new understandings that are widely distributed.

2. How does might Citizen Journalism support the development of "new literacies"?

•  New literacies include thoughtful and ‘critical’ participation. Citizen Journalism expands literacies for learning include criticality, metacognition, reflection, and important skills for creating and publishing content.

3. What is critical literacy and how does your Citizen Journalism project encourage critical literacy?

• Critical literacy encourages students to critically review the text by understanding the foundation and conflicts that lie beneath the surface content and the relationship that the text holds with other text(s).
• Our projects encourage the students to examine issues of class, gender, race, culture, and authority in the aim to advance democracy and in my case healthcare. Students need to understand that all text, ‘just because it’s on the internet’ may not be all true.

How might you change your project to encourage critical literacy?

• I would have them delve deeper into the pros and cons of the healthcare issue. So far there are only two

  4. What problems may arise when students use Web 2.0 tools for learning in school?

• Problems may arise surrounding ownership of work. Trustworthiness and bias can become an issue. Learning how to annotate a web page and how to read material with annotations is a new literacy skill in need of attention. Issues of identity, connectivity, and community can help impact the school culture and may play a role in affecting student learning.

  How might teachers capitalize on these opportunities to promote information literacy?

• Teachers can use collaborative software to allow a class to work with one another, in creating a narrative or non-fiction writing piece.
•  The point is the students work together in a collaborative manner. Each student contributes to a portion of the project and the different portions are then linked and hyperlinked together. The teacher encourages ethical implications.
•  Social networking can also be used in many forms. Our respiratory class uses the Facebook organization app where only those invited, can see the posts. Through this we post notes, ideas and learning web sites and after they graduate job opportunities.
• But many posting happens in a public space, it becomes particularly important for students to understand the ethical and political context behind their work.