Double Entry #5

               Literacy is the ability to understand, but when it comes to media literacy, it’s a lot more than that. It has less to do with understanding the point of the article, but more with the credibility of it. It can sometimes be hard to know whether the source is credible or not, but there are a lot of ways to find if it is.

               “More than half the adults surveyed in Great Britain were not able to use search engines or databases at a basic level.”-Teaching Media Literacy

               This quote scares me. It’s hard to imagine that such a large percentage of people don’t know how to use search fields. No wonder people are so afraid of the next generation getting “lost” on computers when most of the people who say that are computer illiterate. I don’t think that we actually need to teach media literacy, only because now, most of the students have already picked up on it in their own homes. I believe that if we continue to teach how to find credible sources outside of the internet, the students will pick up on the fact that the same rules apply online.

 Grandma doesn't understand the internet

Wikipedia

Socratic Questioning Wiki

--This particular article does have a banner. The banner says that it should be merged with Socratic method
--This article doesn't have many issues.
--In only one spot is there a need for an extra citation.
--This article doesn't give much of an idea of where this teaching style came from, but the name should say it all. The link to Socrates is in the middle of the page, which makes it hard to understand the flow of the article.
--The resources seem to be credible.
--The topic is just one theory so it is understandable that it isn't a large page. Though this is true, it does provide links to Socrates and implementations for this theory.
--I do wish that it gave links to alternate styles of teaching. 
--My main complaint is that it seems to jump around the subject frantically.

I don't really use Wikipedia for anything myself, but i do see where it can be useful. To better understand the idea, Wiki links the page to many others that effected it. students may not be able to use this as a source in anything, but it can help lead them in the right direction.

The Painting by Nick Powell

The Painting by Nick Powell: Picassohead

 

I have always learned better visually and by doing things myself. my listening and reading skills are not the best, but i do understand that these methods is better tools for some. I think a teacher should try to cover all of the ways that students can learn and not just the way that is easiest to do. the more you work for your students, the more you will get out of them. Ive always HATED lecture type classes. to just sit there and listen to the teacher go on and on about a subject is boring and if they dont hold your attention, you wont learn anything. I think that all students like a break in the manotiny.

Double Entry Journal #2

Quote:
     "Gradually, we have become less obsessed with correctness and more focused on tolerance and personal expression."  - Are Digital Media Changing Language?

Response:    

I think that it’s great that we are more interested in what people are saying than how they say it. I myself do not use slang when I text, but am not the type to nit-pick. The way I see it, as long as you understand what they are trying to say, it shouldn't matter how they say it. Students have other ways to get their point across including drawings, text-isms, and many others. I have had teachers that wrote symbols on the board to take the place of words then turn around and put down the use of text-isms in informal journal entries.

I can see why people want to keep the language as close to what it is now as possible, but our language is so hard to use. The spellings of our words are so different from the pronunciation that many people don’t know how to spell most of our words. 

Colleen Abroad

Wordle of Poll #1