Transliteracy is a term that I had never heard before reading this article. Although it was a new concept to me, I identified with a few topics brought up in the article. Some of the slogans in the article were a little cheesy, but they seem like they would be useful to students (and to me!).
"We need to read not to speed" struck a chord with me because I am currently trying to find articles to use in a research project. The article says that students spend only two seconds evaluating whether or not an article or website is worth their time, and I think that I do that on a regular basis. There may information I am missing out on because I am speeding through resources and trying to find the best ones. This reminded me a lot of last week's article. There are so many resources out there, and I am always trying to find the best ones without getting overwhelmed, so I just speed right through them.
The point the article made about ensuring that online sources are credible also made me think. Now that I am in college and regularly writing papers, I know what websites I can go to in order to find scholarly, reputable articles and journals, but many students are not aware of these resources. There's so much information online and so many varying websites that it's difficult to know what you can trust. It will be important for me to teach my future students about finding reputable information so they are prepared to write papers and find out the facts about the world.
Personally, I hope that the increase of digital information does not cause printed work to fade away, but online information is becoming more and more prominent, so whether I want to or not I need to become very technologically literate and transliterate so I can help my students navigate all the differing types of information that will be available to them.
Hey, great review! I agree with the cheese factor of some of the slogans there were in the paper, but I find sometimes those work. I also like what you said about now that we are in college and writing more scholarly papers, we have access and knowledge of where to find more credible sources. I know that I didn't have that information when I was in high school and even coming into college if some teachers hadn't spent time on that I'm not sure what I would have done. And i'm with you about print, love it and sometimes its just better then internet or other types of sources so i'm hoping it sticks around.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that you hope printed work does not fade away. I feel that certain things are meant to be kept in print form. Even as a student, I find it frustrating when a teacher is solely dependent on technology for operating their class. I've had classes that were cut short due to teachers not being able to load a document they wanted to share, or play a video that they wanted us to see. I don't think that having everything available only in electronic form is truly beneficial to any student. Personally, I'd rather have articles and text in print form than reading it on the computer. But the times are changing, and eventually I guess I'll have to adapt.
ReplyDeleteI agree that "We need to read not to speed" is a great quote. Its really important that we teach our students that point exactly. It pertains to both hard copy and internet forms of reading. Now days, this gets tied to scanning through website and scrolling through the pages and clicking links without even reading the information that we are supposed to be looking at. Yet, it is still something that needs to be implicated into teaching when students are reading hard copy books. I know that in middle school and high school I would just sort of skim the pages of required reading, we need to teach our students to actually comprehend the information.
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