New literacies are ways of thinking about how reading and writing and using language, including visually, have changed as a result of new technologies. Basically, "new literacies" are ways of reading and writing that are new because of new tools (like email, texting, twitter, web pages, etc) and new practices (texting, blogging, creating digital video). These practices are new because they let us do things that are different than we could do before. (patersonschools.pbworks.com)
Chapter 2 of Content Area Reading (Vacca and Vacca) helps us to expand the definition of literacy. Literacy is not solely having the ability to read and write on paper, but is expanding to multi sources of media. Think about how many things we read on a daily basis; text messages, emails, websites, etc. We need to teach our students to be literate in all of these. It is essential for our students that we link in-school and out-of-school literacies. We should be using new literacies to help teach our content standards.
How can I use new literacies in my future Spanish classroom?
- Thinking and learning in multimodal environments
- Hypertexts and Hypermedia
- Learn how to evaluate websites
- teach students how to evaluate which websites have accurate information - show them how to maneuver websites
- Use Blogs, Wikis, and Nings - use this for reflective writing
- Learn with the internet - allow students to use the internet as a resource for
- Motivation
- Information
- Communication
The internet has so many opportunities for learning in a Spanish classroom. The idea that I am most excited about is connecting with a class from abroad (native Spanish speakers). I plan to have am internet pal for each of my students, and we can plan a time to go online and have them instant message each other. After a certain amount of time messaging each other, we can have them virtually meet through Skype. How exciting!
New technology is constantly developing, and I hate to say it but our students know how to use much of this technology more than we do. Using this technology as a learning tool will help our students to be engaged and motivated which will lead to a deeper understanding and fewer behavior problems :)
Below is a link to a website (the same website I quoted above) that offers more links to help us explore new literacies in different ways.
http://patersonschools.pbworks.com/w/page/24236781/New%20Literacies%20in%20the%20Classroom
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