In digital literacy, I would have to consider myself an emergent learner. This is because I only knew two out of the six terms on the digital natives quiz online. In the emergent stage I would only know a small amount about technology. In the beginning stage I would understand three or four terms and I would consider a five or above being fluent in digital literacy.
I hope to gain more knowledge about different types of technology over time. It is extremely important that I am aware of all new technology because future and young generations are exposed to games, wiki, emails, instant messaging and other technologies which make students digital natives. In my future classroom, I plan on using technology on multiple levels to connect with individual students. This could help connect with certain students on different levels.
2 comments:
Kelly,
Isn’t it scary to think that we don’t even know some of this terminology and we grew up in the 90’s!? It just goes to show how fast technology changes and how we as teachers need to keep up with the new technology so we can teach our students, not the other way around!
Just like you, this is the first time I have used a blog also! I think that we are able to pick it up so easily becuase of our prior knowledge with technology. Just knowing the basic rules for searching the web, scrolling, and typing text, we were able to use this blog with ease. I remember I tried to do a lesson plan for a second grade class and the activity was an online treasure hunt. It took forver to get everyone online and started. I realized that a lot of students did not know how to do simple things like scroll down on a web page. This lesson completely bombed because I overlooked these details and assumed everyone would know how to do these things. As teachers, I think it is important to scaffold technology in your lessons, so that every student is on track. :)
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