M3: Blog Post 3 - Leveraging Tools, Texts, and Talk in my Teaching Context
The readings from this module have shed light on the importance of designing lessons that go beyond the screen and outside of the classroom. Currently, I am teaching Earth Science at the high school level and have contemplated the many ways to engage students in conversation around new literacy practices. One literacy practice that I believe to be extremely important, is the ability to filter information found on the internet. With so much information on the internet, students are often confused and uncertain of pieces of information found online. One way to engage students in this digital literacy practice is by connecting lessons to real occurrences outside of the classroom. In the article Assessing News Literacies In The 21st Century , Jacobson states, “In Taiwan this school year, students will begin to have lessons on how to recognize credible websites and discern propaganda from legitimate news.” (ILA, 2017). In an Earth Science class, I hav...