How I Want It To Work

In reading the text by Kajder, Chapter 3, I found several aspects that I really enjoyed and solidified my feelings.  In the sections that began to cite examples of teachers utilizing digital literacies I connected with the first two rather strongly.  In the first example, Liz, they discussed how as a new teacher she at a school with not much access to digital tools it was hard for her to employ them in the classroom, until she sought out her own means of digital tools.  I often wonder how I will incorporate these tools into a classroom within a school that might not provide an abundance of technologies.  I enjoyed how it presented a multitude of options and showed that it is possible to bring things into the classroom.  The one aspect I especially enjoyed involved the collaboration project with the varying age ranges and geographic locations; I adore this idea.  It makes students realize that there is a world beyond their home town and gets them communicating with the outside world.  I am jealous I never had the opportunity to partake in something like this in high or middle school.  The second example of Brice I really liked his stance on technology.  As anyone who gets to know me learns, I am not a proponent of using technology just for the sake of using it.  I found it refreshing that Brice really took a look at what the students would gain from the technology and focused his lesson around that.  Also he talked about using a product efficiently, not just to create “a huge, splashy end product.” Both of these examples really exemplify how I would like to incorporate digital literacies into my own classroom.