New Media & New Literacies

Case Study 1: Google Classroom Platform Overview In the K-12 education system, one widely used platform is Google Classroom. It is used for communication, assignments, and resource sharing between teachers, students, and parents. Google Classroom has digital features such as Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Meet, facilitating classroom management, collaboration, and content delivery. Teachers use this platform to create assignments, post announcements, provide feedback, and grade students’ work (Moonma, 2021). On the other hand, students can submit their assignments using Google Classroom and access classroom resources. Parents can view their children’s academic progress and receive notifications on assignments, upcoming events, and deadlines. User Engagement Teachers, students, and parents relying on Google Classroom benefit from its engagement ability since it facilitates efficient communication and collaboration. Google Classroom is instrumental when assigning work, engaging st...

Critical media literacy can help educators create activities encouraging students to think critically about social media, news outlets, and other digital content. Through the projects, students will be able to research how biases can be found, the validity of the information, and even how digital content influences public opinion. In this regard, by integrating critical media literacy into the curriculum, educators also contribute to nurturing students into informed media consumers and contributors who think more critically and are more digitally literate overall. Marlatt, R. (2020). Encounter and Counter: Critical Media Literacy in Teacher Education. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 12(2), 93-99. This article deals with incorporating critical media literacy (CML) within the teacher education framework and how pre-service teachers analyze media portrayals of current events. As a result of developing CML skills, the pre-service teachers would be prompted to critically inquire into t...

       Our world changes all the time, and it makes us a individuals learn nonstop. We learn from our peers, coworkers, parents and people in society. As teachers, we never stop learning. Today, technology changes constantly and affects our daily lives, in and out of the classroom. Throughout my years of being in the classroom, I have seen an increase in technology use and we as educators need make sure that if we are using technology it, it is for a meaningful reason and activity. Brining technology into a lesson does not guarantee engagement. “The persistent allure of technology as an easy remedy for educational issues of equity and achievement is intricately tied to naive assumptions about student interest and the possibility and desirability of "teacher-proof" (Scherer, 2012) classrooms.” (Garcia, 2013)             While I was student teaching, there were many classrooms that I stepped into that mainly used technology for instru...

     Digital Literacy and Improving Digital Practices for Literacy, Learning, and Justice: More Than Just Tools are the two articles I chose to read and analyze. The new literacies, contexts, designs, equity, meaning, importance, and implantation of literacy skills, tools, and communication were all addressed in detail in these two highly informative articles.         In Improving Digital Practices for Literacy, Learning and Justice, the sentence “Instead of placing trust in the latest gadget, faith must be placed in the expertise of teachers to sustain classrooms that reflect the contexts of learning that are encountered outside of schools and in the real world” (Garcia, A. 2018) really made me think. I think that currently, we rely more on the technology to teach the students in the class rather than the teachers who were hired for the job. Thorough approach to digital literacy, it emphasizes the importance of creating classroom environments tha...

     For years, when someone would mention the word ‘literacy’, my mind would go to a reading in a textbook, or an article found online. In the world around us that term has changed. The concept of rethinking facts and experiences, updating   and challenging ideas, and presenting new understandings and solutions is part of the new literacy. I use new literacy everyday whether I think about it or not. I use it while I am browsing my social media in the morning and reading new pop culture articles or when I’m on my kindle at night reading before I go to bed. In 2020 when everything became virtual, I never thought that it would become a normal way of going to school for a while. If I didn’t have that experience of navigating online courses, I don’t think I would’ve been prepared to do my master’s program online.      This is my first-year teaching where I have access to a smart board and a computer to use for instruction. While I was reading the arti...

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