New Lit response

When I hear the word literacy, I go straight to the terms reading, writing, and listening. This class has showed me that literacy can be formed in many new ways. The use of technology in this class has provided lots of new information for me. I have never used a blog before, or even a wiki. Not to mention Jake and I did our new lit project on a website call a flicker ten minutes before we did it, either of us had never heard of it before. It helps me become more aware of what is out there to teach and make use of it. Experimenting in class with these new technologies has helped me set outside my boundaries. Not going to lie I have already messed up using the blog and the wiki, but as I continue to use them I become more familiar with them both. Having literacy be involved with technology helps make it become more interesting and creates more of a network. Would I say paste a whole book to read online, no but I would say post interesting books that might help increase more knowledge. Traditional literacy will always be apart of school settings, and I believe all children need to have the experience of learning to read a book from front to cover.

Jake and I created a project that was meant to be represented in early childhood classes. As I continue to think about this, it can help ELS students or students that have trouble reading. Picture walks can help them visualize the steps in a process. It is not only a good process for washing hands it can be helpful for science projects and other educational instructions. Not only do the pictures help to follow directions it also makes it a fun process. The descriptions can be interesting and funny to read. Motivation is the key process in learning and looking at colors or even seeing your own teacher trying the experiment can help motivate the children.

· Target area and rationale: Why/how would this area be needed for your learners to learn to use the technology to teach peers about the new literacy?

o The picture walk can be an assignment in the beginging but after that I want them posted in the classroom for the children to be reminded of the actions everyday.

• List your objective(s)
• Children will be expected to learn to recycle, wash hands, and use the right clothing for the correct weather.
• List the materials and supplies needed
• Soap towels
• Things to recycle
• A recycling box
• The correct clothing to go outside
• Outline of key events (use bullets)
• After using the bathroom (wash hands)
• Getting ready to go outside (clothing)
• A child has a job each day (recycling)
• Closing summary
• These are everyday situations. This should be an ongoing process in all classrooms. The environment is important to our lives, and it is key to understand it.
• Ongoing assessment
• Singing the song Snowpants, boots, coat, hat, and mittens, now were ready to go outside.
• A new student each day will have the opportunity to recycle one item.
• Children will be expected to wash their hands in the classroom