{"id":1214,"date":"2022-02-22T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/acr-150-literacy-in-american-society-0501-s22\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:08:08","slug":"deleny-leon-db-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/acr-150-literacy-in-american-society-0501-s22\/2022\/02\/22\/deleny-leon-db-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleny Leon DB 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. What are some examples of new literacies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some examples of new literacies are: instant messaging, blogging, social networking, podcasting, photo sharing, digital storytelling, and conducting online searches. In regards to social networking, this may include online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Look at our class google doc. Did any examples of new literacies surprise you? Are there any examples you disagree with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>After looking at the google doc for this class, an example of new literacies that did surprise me was the idea of \u201cmemes\u201d and \u201clolcats\u201d being connected to the term. At first, it may seem odd because memes and lolcats are used by people for jokes, but when you really think about it, the medium used for these jokes, such as images of cats or people, originated from real life event at times and serve as a source of information for others to learn about which allows them to exist as forms of new literacies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>3. What did you learn from this week\u2019s assigned reading?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>From this week\u2019s assigned reading, \u201cDawn of the New Literacies\u201d, by Rick Allen, I learned the importance for researchers, students, and educators to understand and incorporate the idea of \u201cnew literacies\u201d into not only classrooms, but society today as well. According to Rick Allen, \u201cnew literacies\u201d involves, \u201c&#8230;.reading and learning through the Internet and other information and communication technologies.\u201d Further building on this definition, with reading and learning focusing on the internet and other online platforms for access to information, there is no clear definition for \u201cnew literacies\u201d because technology continues to advance and change overtime. Therefore, \u201cnew literacies\u201d evolve everyday, being multifaceted. This change and idea of being multifaceted contribute to the four known characteristics of \u201cnew literacies\u201d promoted by Donald Leu, director at the University of Connecticut&#8217;s New Literacies Research Lab\u201d and co editor of the <em>Handbook of Research on New Literacies<\/em>, and his colleagues. These characteristics, to simplify, emphasize how with the change of \u201cnew literacies\u201d as technology changes, new interactions between literacy and technology occur within the day to day lives of people which leads to new \u201c&#8230;.social practices, skills, strategies, dispositions, and literacies.\u201d as remarked by Donald Leu and his colleagues. These changes marking \u201cnew literacies\u201d as multimodal and multifaceted. For this reason, it is important research to learn more about \u201cnew literacies\u201d as it is a new and emerging field within society. The idea of \u201cnew literacies\u201d being important, especially, for classrooms due to students utilizing many online platforms and advanced technology to access information which can result in the intake of false information or the promotion of shallow thinking. These emerging issues not only affect the performance of students in school, but outside and in the future which many educators fear and want to resolve. Unfortunately, with the lack of knowledge on the exact nature of \u201cnew literacies\u201d, educators are unable to fully combat the poor intellectual development of students within classrooms to better prepare them for future careers. With this in mind, the Department of Education\u2019s Office of Educational Technology released the <em>National Education Technology Plan<\/em> in Spring 2010 to search and research about the best methods to tackle \u201cnew literacies\u201d within classrooms by incorporating and utilizing new technology within classrooms and creatively allowing students to both engage with the school curriculum and learn how to prosper in the future with technology. Unfortunately for this plan, there are issues that can affect the effectiveness of this plan such as a lack of ambitious teachers or a lack of knowledge on how to understand the idea of integrating technology into classrooms. Fortunately, Linda Labbo and Karen Place, authors of \u201cFresh Perspectives on New Literacies and Technology Integration\u201d, provide advice to combat this issue to benefit the classroom such as \u201c&#8230;addressing student access to technology in and out of school; and guiding students to ask critical questions about the use of technology and its impact.\u201d Aside from this, there are benefits to the advancement of technology and its effect on literacy because students and society have easier access to information and new opportunities to interact with media and data. Overall, from this week\u2019s reading, \u201cDawn of the New Literacies\u201d, by Rick Allen, I learned how culture can evolve overtime and effect the existing ideas within it as seen with literacy and the emergence of \u201cnew literacies\u201d as a result of advancing technology in which has caused a huge disruption in the development and learning of many students and educators today.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>4. What did you learn from this week\u2019s assigned TedTalk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>From this week\u2019s assigned TedTalk, titled \u201cThe Essential Elements of Digital Literacies\u201d presented by Doug Belshaw, I learned about the idea of pre literate behaviors and how important it is we develop a framework for educating people about digital literacies. The TedTalk began with Doug Belshaw explaining how we have our own set of pre-literate behaviors and gestures as seen with how we may read a book either upside-down or how we may use a mousepad to utilize a laptop for navigating information. These pre-literate behaviors being associated with how we train ourselves to physically play a set of notes we want to hear on an instrument. This entire discussion leaving flabbergasted because of how easily I forgot about the idea of how we utilize certain behaviors or movements to access information to read, write, or listen to a note played on an instrument. From this focus on pre-literate behaviors, Mr. Belshaw asks the question of what exactly is literacy if these begaviors show various possibilities to defining it. Based on the 1957 UNESCO definition of \u201cliteracy\u201d provided by the TedTalk, \u201cLiteracy is a characteristic acquired by individuals in varying degrees from just above none to an intermittent upper level. Some individuals are more or less literate than others but it is really not possible to spea of illiterate and literate persons as two distinct categories.\u201d This excerpt is brought up by Doug Belshaw to show how their is no possible way to separate literate and illiterate people into two categories because it the literacy of a person depends on context. What this means is someone may not be able to read at the same pace as the rest of their class, but are able to play an instrument very well. Literacy does not focus only on reading and writing, but various characteristics pertaining to different fields of interest. From this idea, Doug Belshaw builds on how society and cultures have evolved to focus on the advancement of technology which has resulted in the emergence of \u201cdigital literacies.\u201d \u201cDigital literacies\u201d are forms of literacies applied to technology and the digital world in which Doug Belshaw argues are not linear, but are multifaceted in which \u201c&#8230;they need to be socially negotiated and they depend heavily upon context.\u201d With the emergence of digital literacies, the emergence of \u201cmemes\u201d, \u201cremixes\u201d, and \u201clolcats\u201d have been seen which serve to pass down information within a culture and can sometimes act as propaganda. These ideas, interestingly, having been seen in the past when technology has yet advanced to the technology used today as seen with multiple onlin platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The existence of these new online platforms providing easier access for people to see these pieces of information. With digital literacies not only evolving overtime, but leaving many people to be unsure of how to adjust to these changes, Doug Belshaw believes we must develop a progressive framework to teach others about digital literacies instead of following a linear sequential order of teaching. A framework meant not only to teach, but to focus on the interest of people and to help them gain the motivation to develop their own digital skills for themselves. For this reason, Mr. Belshaw has developed a set of eight essential elements of digital literacies which involve the following: Cognitive, Cultural, Confident, Creative, Critical, Constructive, Communication, Critical, and Civic. These elements can be combined together and exist to assist with the formation of remixes which were mentioned before and serve to allow people to take a piece of information and design it according to their own interests.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>5. What are some \u201cnew literacies\u201d that have helped you with your schooling? Explain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some \u201cnew literacies\u201d that helped me with my schooling was the first incorporation of Smartboards to replace chalkboards. Prior to the late 2010s, my classes utilized the chalkboard to write notes or reminders about upcoming events, exams, or homework. These writings were usually erased after the teacher made sure the whole class had copied everything on the board, only to erase the writings and continue teaching the class while writing new notes or reminders on the chalkboard again. Teaching while needing to take time out of class to write on the chalkboard was a hard process for both the teacher and students, including myself, who had to make sure all notes were copied before they were erased because they couldn\u2019t be rewritten again without the help of another classmate\u2019s notes. My inability to read words from a long distance provided me issues at times with copying notes and being able to identify the words written by the teacher which were, at times, written in cursive. These issues were solved with the incorporation of Smartboards which not only allowed students and teachers to return to the notes typed on screen, but allowed me and other students to easily identify the letters within the notes for the class. The ability for teachers to enlarge words providing further assistance for copying notes. The incorporation of Smart Boards also allowed students to watch educational videos in class which did help me to better understand the lessons taught in class sometimes. Aside from Smartboards, the incorporation of Google Classroom was another form of \u201cnew literacies\u201d which helped me. Google Classroom is an online platform which is sponsored by google and allows the creation of classrooms online for students and teachers to interact if a code is provided. Google Classroom allowed me to access the materials and notes taught in class compared to having to ask my teacher if they are available after class to provide notes or ask another student which was a hard task at times due to different students having different handworking which were incomprehensible sometimes. This issue causing my grades to drop at certain times.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Have you ever had to help someone with technology (new literacies) who was not tech savvy? What was that experience like?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At the moment, there has not been someone who needed my help with technology (new literacies).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>7. What is ONE \u201cnew literacies\u201d that you cannot live without?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>One \u201cnew literacies\u201d I cannot go without is Blackboard because, compared to Google Classroom, it provides more mechanics and easier navigation around my classes. Allowing announcements from teachers to be visible, providing better interactions between students through the use of Discussion Boards, easier access to notes from both recent and past classes taken. Also, it provides a calendar which marks any homework or exams that may be coming up which is, in my opinion, very useful.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Explain your personality using ONLY three emojis \u2013 what would they be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\ud83d\ude34\ud83e\udd17\ud83e\udd14<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What are some examples of new literacies? 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