Week 9- Assignment 1

According to the article, students who are currently in college have not been prepared in reading and comprehension when reading and learning because of the on demand use of technology. As I see on a daily basis with my students, they lack focus and engagement if it doesn’t involve technology or a on demand topic.  Being that this is the era of technology the article suggest that schools should use new literacies to connect with students.  Using new literacies is digital and help students focus and engage more with reading and comprehension in a topic.

In addition the articles majority speaks about the use of blogging with college students. College professors began introducing blogging to students so they can do assignments on line, communicate with one another virtually, sharing work and commenting on each other’s work. Having student’s blog and use common technology in the classroom should make them become more engaged. After some further research the study ended up showing students who blog vs. students who do not blog had no significant difference. However when results were gathered by professors they stated that students do better learning when blogging and have a positive effective in the classroom. Students were interactive and completing assignments care second nature to them.


 When it comes to my experience I feel that using technology and new literacies in the classroom does make a difference. For the most part I’m not bored, I’m engaged and it makes the classroom effective and time go by fast. Introducing new literacies also expand the use of technology and opens up a bigger platform for technology to be used for other subjects.

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