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I think the three most powerful entries for this part of the course are 3 of my blog posts; "Rereflection", "Literacies Sampler"and "Kapitzke". With regards to comprehensiveness, they indicate responsiveness to all parts of this course, because each represents a different set of readings . The first one indicates my revelations as I reread the first article and the processing and deep thinking associated with it . The fact that it followed hard on the heels of the previous reflection, the differ… Continue

Curriculum Plan: the New Literacies and Hyperliteracy

Grade 8: 31 french immersion students,
Challenge:
1.It is the last 7 days of teaching the marks are already in and this is about keeping them interested and learning till the end ( not letting them shut down)(CAN I DO IT?????)2. I want to use the variety of media and technology that we have available in the school and have the students construct an understanding of how their learning is taking place.
Rationale:
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I didn’t realize until I was cleaning up my emails that I had to do a reflection for the second Kapitzke article. The thoughts presented in this article seem a little more friendly towards the role of the librarian than she had been. Kapitzke leads us down the path to commitment to learning the new technologies and being involved in hyperliteracy .She indicates that in all consciousness we need to move away from neutrality to position or opinion in the politics of our schools and education syste… Continue

I think I am finally consolidating my thoughts on the new literacies and am willing to consider them hyperliteracies. I guess you could say I am filtering and interpreting. The value added part I love. Our former Premier used that term a lot and now I understand it in a differnt way than financial and economical... it is the connections made across a variety of media to create a relationship. WOW!! there is that word again 'connections'. It seems that the buzz word for learning is connections wi… Continue

These readings were much easier reading ; more practical and real than philosophical and theoretical. I liked Gee's comments that There are two Discourses; the primary one "how we learn to do and be". The "secondary Discourses are those we are recruited to through participation in outside groups and institutions". They "draw upon and extend our resources from our primary Discourse". The bigger the gap between the two, the more one has to stretch to perform within this Discourse. I can identify w… Continue