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 While I do not work with ELL students anymore, I found the interaction of an audio blog interesting and I plan on creating something for my general education students. I would like to use it as a means of planning out our writing assignments. Most of my students do not plan out their writing or have a fluid thought while writing, they "idea jump". However, the use of audio blogs could help them and each other hear what they plan on writing. Rather than write it down once and not think about the organization or grammar of the writing assignment. But the audio blogs just like all of their school work, require communication between the teacher and students. One of the quotes that stuck with me was when Hsu said, "The 'e-generation' is strongly motivated by the integration of technology". When educators think of our students as the "e-generation" we have the ability to do great things. We cannot teach the future generations based on past examples, we need to change with the times. 

But technology is not the only thing we need to focus on during our instruction and literacy. I try my best to make my curriculum into anything remotely relatable to the students. Many of my students do not care about Global 9 and find that it has no relevance in their lives. Affective resonance was something I had not thought of before, the small queues like typing in all caps or the word love being stronger than like was something that was just natural to me and I did not bother considering it literacy. I have found that using TikTok has been an effective mode of education. I would find/create the typical AI videos but relate them to history and our subject for the day. I have done this for every unit that I could. The students have now been coming up to me asking about the ones they have discovered in their own algorithm and asking if they were true or not. By bringing history into a form they are familiar with, I have sparked an interest that has brought education into their own lives. 

My school is not very diverse, so when we read about the varying cultures or inequalities, they are faced with facts and events that they cannot relate to. My goal for myself is to expose them to cultures that they don't understand and show them that it is not very different than the practices we have here. According to Jones, one way to attack this problem is by creating a multiliteracy classroom. She states that "'creative uses of reading, writing, and oral language' that act as 'strategic tools for the curricular and pedagogic refusal of the hegemony of whiteness and anti-Blackness'". The more diverse our educational practices become, the more diverse our curriculum can be, we are able to broaden our horizons if we can tackle the problems of the past. 

Hsu, H., & Wang, S. (2017). RETHINKING LANGUAGE LEARNING. Literacy Today, 35(3), 28-29. https://sunyempire.idm.oclc.org/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Ftrade-journals%2Frethinking-language-learning%2Fdocview%2F1966005990%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D8067

Jones, K., & Storm, S. (2022). Sustaining Textual Passions: Teaching With Texts Youth Love. Journal of Literacy Research, 54(4), 458-479. https://doi-org.sunyempire.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/1086296X221141393