Reading Response for Feb.10th- Tech-Tech-Technology

Good Day Everyone! I hope this blog will find you well!

The readings for this week (while many and daunting) were filled with a plethora of information-mostly technolgy.

 

I started reading Kajder who showed several examples of real students who give a fair representation of the "digital youth." The one youth I was most impressed with was Molly from Richland High. She took it upon herself to do the assignments in a variety of multimodel ways (some that I didn't even know about!) and consistetly showed her teacher all these new medias. It made me realize that as a person, most importantly a teacher, that I will have to continually keep up to date on all the latest media trends and helpful websites.

Speaking of multimodel, the d2l handout, I just need to draw... talked about transmediation- aka the transition of one sign system into another. While sign system doesnt actually mean sign...

oh look...a sign

 

...it does mean the ways one "communicates" in a a given media. However, speaking of sign, I am secretary for the American Sign Language (ASL) Club here at SRU and I can relate to the idea of transmediation when signing english words in ASL. While that is called translating, the idea is the same and I realize the importance and most importantly the equality in transcribing from one thing to another. Transmediation does not lost quality if it is transcribed from one media to another, which I feel some old-time teachers may think. Some people may think an essay is superior to a picture show, but isnt a picture worth a thousand words? The quality is the same

 

Overall, the readings showed me how crucial technolgy is in the modern world. Now that we have it, we are not going to stop using it so we better become the forerunners on the topic so we dont drowned in the sea of digital literacy~~~

 

Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed the blog, let me know in the comments section! If you'd like me to add anything to make the text more fun or easier to read, let me know. Some questions for the comment section:

 

Do you believe transmediation is effective and produced the same level of quality?

If you had a student like Molly in your class, how would you react? Would you let her be free to do the assignment in a different way?

 

Thanks again! Have a great day and remember....

~Add a little Streiff to your life~

 

-Joey S.