New Media & New Literacies

     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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