Information Literacy As a Learning Goal : Looking at the chart 5.1 I was not surprised by the percentage increase throughout the years. I remember when I was in middle school I would always get home straight to the computer but not for school work. I would instead use it for entertainment. Never had I imagined that I would become so adapted to the internet now. I use the internet for everything, including homework, projects of school, and also to communicate with my family out of the country, which is pretty cool. Throughout my high school years I remember being taught how to asses online information and learned tricks to look for the right information. Everything I learned from the libarians and teachers have helped me out a lot in college, since now is when I use it the most. I think as a college student is important to begin developing literacy skills in early grades because it will be so useful for the rest of your life .
e-Books and e-Readers : Having the ability to have access to a book online is marvelous. When I first started college and I first found out about e-Books being available i thought to myself how awesome ! Not only are the a-Books in school are cheaper than a regular hard cover textbook, but its a lot of weight lifted off your shoulders, Literally. But another side of me agrees with with Historian David McCullough. Although we all learn differently, I feel like when I have the textbook right in front of me, and I can highlight information that I think is the most important, I learn so much better. I tried using an e-book the first year of college, it did not go well for me. I thought it was because in high school all we use are textbooks than maybe it was a little odd change for me, but ever since then I continued to get my books as textbooks. Don't get me wrong I love the idea of how easy an e-book can make things for you, but again, my learning preferances are different than others. On the other hand, reading the news online rather than listen to it on television is so fun, I can just keep scrolling down and read for days.
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Electronic Note-Taking : Taking notes is something I have been doing forever. As I grew older the amount of notes I took in class increased. Electronic note-taking has made it a lot easier for me now that I am in college. Since I started college it was always so frustrating for me to sit in class and not being able to write everything down that was up on the board. Some of my teachers gave us enough time to be able to copy all of it down or at least be able to summarize what we read, but others I didn't even have time to think about what I had just read. I always though that by writing something down made me remember things a lot better. But ever since I started having professors that did not give me enough time to write things down I started bringing in my Mac to school because i can type faster than I can write. I currently use Pages to write down my notes, but after reading this section of the book I learned of a new app I just downloaded, OneNote which is a lot like Microsoft and its free !
References:
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2011).Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
Love your Voki - wasn't that fun? Can you imagine asking students to create their own and then recite a poem they wrote or give a book review or....the list goes on! :) I'm glad you tried it and really glad we figured out the embedding issue as it is so much better to be right on the webpage - congratulations! :)
ReplyDeleteReading and writing, listening and speaking - all basic communication skills that we can do both with and without technology! Which is better? Some of that is personal preference as there are definitely pros and cons for both sides. As we transition more fully into the informational age though, I think we will come to respect them for speed (i.e., hand-written note v. email v. text), creativity, and meaning - with a worldwide perspective, it will be easy to technology enhancing communication tools increase.