My conceptual understanding on literacy has changed drastically
since the beginning of class. I had heard people use the phrase “I am technologically
illiterate”, yet I never applied anything but the ability to comprehend what
one reads to my definition of literacy. Now I have a much different
understanding and definition of literacy and it is more broadly defined in
terms of the skills one needs to function successfully in society.
My research with emotional literacy highly influenced this
change of understanding because it has nothing to do with written work yet can
significantly impact ones success in life and interaction with society at large.
That is, low emotional literacy would make it hard to perform well in an
interview or to be able to work successfully with colleagues. Low emotional
literacy could also make it difficult to maintain friendships. Both of these
things are essential to functionality in society.
My digital literacy
advanced this new understanding and fluid and working definition because I
realize that students needs navigation skills across many different digital
platforms to be able to generalize what to do when faced with a new digital
interface. This is an important aspect of literacy because in almost every job
you are required to be able to use and navigate digital technologies. By
teaching various digital technologies
My
research on new literacy’s definitely as influenced by understanding of how to
instruct diverse learners in their literacy development. Now that I have the
understanding that literacy involved a variety on skills that assists one in
functioning in society, I realize there is much more to teach than strictly
reading comprehension.
Diverse
learners would have to learn digital literacy in different ways yet it is
important that they are digitally literate because of the importance this
literacy hold in society. ELL students would need help navigating pages written
in English. Visually impaired students would need to use tools that make these
websites more accessible, such as voice over which is provided on most Mac
devices. Hearing impaired students would need video tutorials across many
different digital platforms so that they can begin to generalize the concepts
(just like any students, but only the video tutorials would be different).
There are many different ways we need to consider making these digital literacies
accessible to all learners.
Emotional
literacy instruction would also vary across different diverse learners. For
example, ELL students may come from cultures where different visual cues in
relating to people mean different things. This is where cultural and emotional literacy collide and it would require explicit
instruction and dialogue to make sure that these students were able to
understand these differences and to pick up appropriately on these visual cues
so that they are better able to function in American society.
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