Born Digitally

   After I finished the readings, specifically Turner and Hicks' chapter 2, I began to think about my past blog posts and other digital literacies. I didn't post hyperlinks or images or any other forms of multimedia because I never thought about their effects on my writings. It got me thinking about the ways I've used digital literacy in the past. As well as how I can use them in my future classrooms. 
   Chapter 2 talks about how hyperlinks can do more to enhance the information that you are presenting, especially in digital arguments. Hyperlinks can provide an added source of credibility and validity to your piece of work. I liked the activity that Turner and Hicks mention to do with students. I think that it is a great way to get students to not only use and interact with technology but they learn how to write digitally and support whatever it is they are writing. Images are another great way to have students support their claims in writing without much elaboration. 
   Chapter three reiterates how to increase students' procedural and declarative knowledge through digital literacies. Teaching students that there is more than one way to create a digital text is important to their creativity. 
   Connecting these digital literacy activities to the CCSS and NCTE Standards can be difficult but digital literacy is literacy. Students can be more creative in their writing through technology. Using evidence to support their claims through hyperlinks and images meets more than one CCSS standard. Having the students create blogs, twitters, interactive google docs, etc., helps them incorporate the world of social media, that they know and enjoy using, to the curriculum and standards that are to meet. 
   

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  1. Ruba BouzanFebruary 19, 2018 at 7:46 AM

    Jaci, I agree that incorporating digital literacy activities into the standards can be tricky, I think what I find the most difficult is finding content that could be used in an academic setting. However, I think deviating from a traditional academic activity could liven things up. I talked about an example in my blog that I got from the book where they showed two different campaign slogans and then highlighted what they could convey in a digital argument format. That's something I think students would enjoy, it's letting them voice what certain details caught their attention and what they think they mean.

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