Friday, September 14, 2012
This week in Writing for Non-Print Media, I really enjoyed reading the book Adolescents and Digital Literacies. My favorite was the tackling of literacy myths, because I could personally identify with nearly all of them. Unfortunately, many teachers perpetuate those myths, such as "students who struggle with one literacy will have difficulty with all literacies". I've seen teens given the label of "bad student" (which followed them all throughout high school), when in reality he/she just struggled in one area. Given the opportunity, he/she could excel in another area. It's important as teachers to know our students' strengths and weaknesses, so we can better cater to their learning styles. For instance, so many students struggle while reading Shakespeare right from the page. Acting the scene out in class, perhaps, would be a great way to help students who are visual learners. The use of non-print media is a really important way to approach different learning styles and bring more modern and nontraditional methods into the classroom.
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I really like your take on the so-called "bad student." When I taught high school, it was interesting to talk to other teachers about these "problem students" and what I often found was exactly what you said. Some might have been very productive in my class, but not done well in, say, a science class. I don't mean to suggest we gossip about our students...but I did notice many times that when a teacher and I shared a student we noticed different levels of participation in our respective classes. I think this goes back to the theory that we all learn differently, and we all apply ourselves to our interests.
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