New Media & New Literacies

 We need to reevaluate our views of literacy, Sang goes on to say "In conventional literacy education, students are taught to embrace and adapt to the official and standard forms of the target language, their diverse personalities, cultures, and language backgrounds are not relevant" (Sang 2017, 18). Our education system is meant to adapt to our students. Our diversity is an important part of our lives and we must embrace that as well as we can.  This is something that my school district struggles with, the majority of my district is white. The lack of diversity shows itself more when the students are being taught the varying cultures from around the world. As a Global 9 teacher, I have to cover the entire world except the United States, and this tends to cause many questions or have the students "weirded out" by the customs found in other countries. They often bring their own biases into the discussion which can be hard to combat. However, one major reason for thei...

    The world around us is ever changing, every day we are surrounded by technology and are constantly trying to expand our reach. There is no escaping literacy, from newspapers to books, to magazines, the "old literacy" is still around. But even when we don't surround ourselves with those types of literacy, the majority of Americans will have a form of technology that makes it impossible to escape literacy. Literacy is more than just reading and writing. "If we see literacy as  'simply reading and writing'...we cannot make sense of our literacy experience"  (Lankshear 2006, 2). Our curriculum is meant to prepare students for a life outside of the classroom. Which means that the students must work with information and resources that they will actually find out of school. This is where we need to incorporate multiliteracies into our lesson planning. Multiliteracies include the use of modes like "visual,  audio, spatial, behavioral, and gestural"...