Chapter 7:
"These findings clearly have implications for teacher educators who must find ways of encouraging pre-service teachers to evaluate current practices surrounding digital technology in the classroom."
I found this entire chapter interesting, as I hadn't entirely noticed it before, but the ways that I most usually teach are adaptations of what I used while student teaching. I felt that I learned the most I have ever learned in my life during my student teaching experience. I also feel that while student teaching, the methods that you learn to use then are going to be most comfortable for you to then take to your teaching after graduation.
Chapter 8:
"There is no doubt that in the context of schooling, critical examination of relationships, knowledge and practices are vital (Comber and Simpson, 2001) and, in relation to digital literacies, this is very often associated with issues of access to or exclusion from resources, including hardware, software and connectivity to the internet (Nixon, 2001)"
I liked this quote because I feel that critical examination of relationships is necessary for mastery skill level of any given content. Any content in general education requires the use of making connections and it is often a skill that students can struggle with. I also appreciated the fact that it noted the problems that can arise from lack of access to resources, which is usually technological.
Chapter 9:
"A common stance that lies somewhere between resistance and replacement may be described as ‘return’. By return I mean to indicate a stance that values new literacy practices but validates and defends them with respect to print."
I chose this quote from Chapter 9 because I feel that it reflects my stance on incorporating old media with new media. I feel that we cannot really have new media without the old, and that often times new media is just another way of representing what was already in print. I also believe that in order to truly utilize new media, we must have traditional skills.
References:
Carrington, Professor Victoria; Robinson, Professor Muriel (2012-06-30). Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices (Published in association with the UKLA) (Kindle Locations 2701-2702, 2966-2968, 3124-3125). SAGE Publications. Kindle Edition.
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