1. "Long-range studies have shown increases in youths' digital literacy habits in a relatively short time period."
It is obvious that students are growing in technology use. I would like to help teachers see the fact that we need to incorporate technology in order to help better reach our kids. If we are not willing to help teach digital literacy, then how can we expect the kids to perform great in the future. We need to incorporate the tools that kids will be familiar with. This can help connect the comprehension of the material to something relating to the students.
2. "So teachers have much leeway in their instructional approaches to teaching digital literacies, but obstacles still remain."
This is a powerful message to teachers. We have a lot of options available to teach the content we are told to teach. We should remain strong and focused that way when we approach the obstacles mentioned in the article, we can think back and realize we have leeway and should not feel pressured to do things one way. Teaching digital media literacies can be incorporated into our instruction and should not be an obstacle we have to overcome. Even though technology is "new", we have many approaches available to introduce the information to the students.
3. "Many teachers are still unclear about the import of integration and instruction."
It is important to emphasize that in order to push the teaching of the digital literacies, instructors need to know how to incorporate the technologies in their instruction. Teachers need to be trained on all the options they have to integrate the literacies in their content or field of study.
Find an article that helps you understand how to implement critical pedagogy into your classroom setting. In a blog posting, summarize what you learned about enacting critical pedagogy in your own classroom and detail what like about critical pedagogy and what concerns you.
Mathematics for Social Justice"
The biggest thing I learned from the article is that in order to implement critical pedagogy into my classroom, I need to be open to change and allowing myself to grow with each group of students I see. One reason I see as a second year teacher is that students who are in my math classes want to know when they will use certain "skills" in their future. If they feel it is irrelevant, then they do not want to put forth the effort to learn it. In order to help teach them, I would like to try to pursue the idea of pushing my students to think logically.
I want to grow and make the "continuous journey", as mentioned in the article, in learning to teach Mathematics with critical pedagogy. I need to be open to changes and willing to learn different approaches to tie in the concepts to more meaningful relationships with the students.
My biggest concern with this is not reaching every student who struggles with making connections. Even with all the practice and training I might, I must not lose sight of the fact that not everyone will learn to love Math like I do and I need to be patient with the students who truly want to understand but yet have difficulty.
References:
Avila, J., & Pandya, J. (2013). Critical digital literacies as social praxis. (Vol. 54). New York: NY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Stinson, D., Bidwell, C., & Powell, G. (2012). Critical pedagogy and teaching mathematics for social justice. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 4(1), 76-94. Retrieved from http://libjournal.uncg.edu/index.php/ijcp/article/viewFile/302/263
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