New Media & New Literacies - John Pirrone

            Upon completing the additional readings for this module, there were multiple statements and points of view that were enlightening and insightful. One of the statements that resonated with me the most was “Powerful literacy instruction should prepare students today to produce, communicate, interpret, and socialize with peers, adults, and the broader world they will enter when they graduate” (International Literacy Association, 2018). As an educator, my primary goal is to prepare students for the world outside of the classroom. It was not too long ago when I graduated from college with hopes that my college prepared me enough for my future career. Something that I have noticed amongst the current student population is their lack of attention towards punctuation and formatting emails. I want my students to be able to properly format and send emails, write professional papers, and communicate their thoughts and perspectives in a manner that sho...

          Now more than ever, new literacy practices are relevant to both my professional and personal life. In terms of my professional life, one of my goals is to be the best teacher that I can possibly be. In order to be the best version of myself in the classroom, it is extremely important to keep up with the times and with modern technology. The article, Expanded Territories of “Literacy”: New Literacies and Multiliteracies states, “First, while the “old technologies” mostly consist of simple forms of production, the new “technical stuff” is a “hybridization of multimodal media” that includes texts, images, music, videos, etc., which altogether create interactive and interconnected forms of production that can be retrieved conveniently (Lankshear and Knobel, 2007)” (Sang, 2017). In today’s world students are growing up with technology far more advanced than when I was their age. In order to effectively teach, we need to understand the technology that t...

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