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Borsheim, Merritt, and Reed explore the need to prepare and motivate students with multiliteracies. Multiliteracies is “based on the well-established assumption that technologies (including computers, cell phones, PDA’s, the Internet, and Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs, and other social networking sites) have impacted the nature of texts, as well as the way people use and interact with texts.” (87) Using this teachers need to help students understand different media as well as why different technologies would be used for different purposes. There are many different reasons to use technology. Borsheim points out that using media can increase the audience. Whereas a traditional paper will be read by the professor and few others, using the media can help to broaden the audience which in turn forces the student to take more time and pride in their work. Reed noticed this in her speech classroom as well. Instead of just having the students write and recite their speeches, she used podcasts and posted them to blogs so that they could reach members of the community as well as other classrooms around the world. This increase in audience made the students take more time in their projects and go through countless revisions, because they wanted their message to be heard and they wanted to be proud of what they were accomplishing. Merritt discusses the use of technology not just to teach students, but also as a teaching tool for other teachers. She describes the use of wikispace as a place for teachers to collaborate and discuss ideas. So not only are teachers using technology to better help their students, but it can be used as a forum to help other teachers as well. It also bridges the distance gap. There could be a teacher doing exceptional things with technology in California, and through wikispace can be teaching exactly what they are doing to teachers in Baltimore, eliminating the
cost and time of going to a conference, it can be done digitally. The same can be said for teachings around the world, not just in the United States, but all over the globe. Article Review #5 Redefining Rigor: Critical Engagement, Digital Media, and the New English/Language Arts Jessica Dockter, Delania Haug, Cynthia Lewis In this article, Dockter, Haug, and Lewis explore implementing media-focused curriculum. They had a number of goals that they wanted to achieve through this new format. They used responses that students had from taking a documentary film course, but the objectives could be related to a number of different subjects. The first was to “allow students build their own understandings.” (419) Students need to be allowed to explore and come to their own conclusions, rather than just accepting preconceived notions. The second was to “allow students to collaborate in meaningful ways” (419) They use the example of students making podcasts about subjects that were important to them. Discussing the podcasts encourages the students to have meaningful discussions with one another, and to really learn something about each other because their learning about what they’re all interested in. The third goal was to “include authentic audiences and consequences” (419) Just like a lot of the other articles have said, when you increase the audience size with the use of technology, it forces to student to care more about the quality of their work. They take more pride in what they are doing because they are sharing it with more than just a teacher.
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