Monday, March 3, 2014

Pros & Cons To New Literacies

Pros To New Literacies: 

  • Innovative thinking can occur through the use of technology 
  • Inclusion for all students in the classroom 
  • Higher student engagement 
  • Technology integration
  • Easily transferred to home life or other social networks of friends 
  • Community connections
  • Meaning making 
  • Students reading more frequently 
  • Students reading for longer periods of time 
  • Development of critical thinking 
  • Increase in fluency 
  • Development of vocabulary 
  • Broadening a students schema 
  • Collaboration through literacy instruction 


Cons To New Literacies: 
  • Sufficient funds for schools to purchase materials and equipment needed 
  • Does the reader maintain full engagement while being involved in the text
  • Lack of preparation from the educator to utilize technology properly 
  • Consistency in authentic and appropriate text for students 
  • Ensuring the safety of your students through the use of the internet 
  • That the technology is not equipped to meet the Common Core Standards requested by the state. 
  • Little consistency in multimedia formatting of information 
  • Little in the way of quality control of information that is constructed and communicated 
  • Amount of information [“info-garbage”] can be overwhelming
  • Many resources are out of date or have not been updated for years
  • Digital manipulation is a popular form of deception
  • Information for kids is intertwined with hidden social, economic and political agendas




References: 
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBMBLhqMGjecUL0b1amqeSw

http://www.lite.iwarp.com/compint.html



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