Literacy is one’s ability
to use written and printed information to function in a society where they are
able to accomplish their goals and learn.
I think social literacy and literacy are very similar. Social literacy
is a person’s ability to communicate with their family members, citizens,
workers, and life long learners. When needed to communicate and mediate between
different people and settings, one needs to be able to communicate their
thoughts and express with others information. One often uses oral language to
communicate with others however in todays world, facebook, twitter, and txting
are becoming the main way to communicate to a wide range of people, one needs
to be able to communicate their thoughts and opinions through written text.
One
activity that we did last semester in history was the fish bowl discussion. the
video How to teach math, as a social activity from edutopia, also used a fish
bowl method for a math lesson. The students discussed with one another the
different ways they solved the problem. The teacher made it clear that before
he was able to have the students take part in the fishbowl activity they needed
to establish rules and guidelines as to which the students thought of. This
provided the students to take ownership in what they value is important and
have some responsibility when choosing the rules. After the students were
taught how to speak and disagree politely, ask questions, and communicate
appropriately the class was able to take part in fishbowl discusion. This
allowed the students to be able to learn from other students instead the
teacher having to be the one teaching always.
For fishbowl or other group discussion or team activities my students
would definitely need to review and set up some rules in place for the
classroom. The students talk over top of one another and do not listen to each
other’s ideas. Also, the students need to learn how to disagree in a mature way
and discuss why they disagree with one another. My students need to relearn the
steps to have a successful conversation and how to successfully help other
students that does not just have them copying answers.
Social
literacy is any way that one communicates to other people. I never realized how
much our world today is using social literacy in our every day occurrence.
Students use social literacy through classroom discussions, however what is
important though is that teachers prepare students and give them the foundation
to become successful in social literacy. Even though in todays world social
literacy is very common, there are different expectations and rules in the
classroom verse the outside world. In the classroom it is important that
teachers provide the expectations and rules so that student feel comfortable to
express their feelings and thoughts. It is also important to try and provide
all students with time to share their ideas and thoughts. Even though teachers
are expected to cram in a lot of information throughout the day it is very
important for all the students in the class to feel that they are able to share
their thoughts and questions. By providing the correct expectations and a safe
environment students will learn how to apply classroom expectations to the
outside world and how to properly act on facebook, twitter or other resources
where they are able to share their opinions and interact with others.
The
technology device we are using is weebly, this is an Internet site where you
can create a page and upload information to the internet site. This is great
because it can be seen on any computer and anyone can see it as long as you
make it public or just a couple of teaching friends that you would like to
share the information, then you would just have to make it private. What is
great is you can upload videos, pictures, text, and hyperlinks to other sites
from your website. This allows yourself and other educators to see the
important information that you are sharing.
Weebly
is similar to writing a paper because you are allowed to type out text and
write out information you would like to share. However, what makes this site
more interactive for viewers is that pictures, animations and videos can be
uploaded to the site to be viewed and receive additional information. One is
able to create their website how ever they want it to look One can change the
background colors, font, and really personalize it for themselves and their
viewers. This is great if you have students that need special accommodations
and struggle seeing specific colors or need a larger font size. Using Weebly one
is able to create a site specific to the viewers needs. Teachers are allowed to
create a site and then have students explore information on the site, by
providing a couple directions and steps to advance students through the site.
The students would easily be able to navigate through the website learning
information through txt, videos, pictures and audio.
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