Thursday, January 24, 2008
Edutopia: Feb/Mar 08
I just read the article in this month's Edutopia "Programming: the New Literacy". It talks about how power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of powerful and expressive human-machine interactions, and how today's kids already see their parents and their teachers as the illiterate ones! Yikes. It's got me thinking "digitally". Good article!
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Yikes is right. That is why we need Myra to lead us into the new age of communication. Illiterate? I do not want to be illiterate. That magazine is on the office table, did you read this Myra?
LS
That is very scary to think that kids consider us illiterate! Since we are trying to move into the future...is this article on line, on a blog, or a RSS feed? I'd like to see it also.
Thank heavens for Myra! She will lead us into the future so our kids won't consider us illiterate!
All of this web 2.0 stuff seems a bit overwhelming, but I know that I need to learn it and use it!
The article can be found online at http://www.edutopia.org/literacy-computer-programming.
It is a good article. I liked the definition of 21st Century Skills "being able to both understand and create messages, communications, and works that include, or are constructed with, visual, aural, and haptic -- that is, physical -- elements as well as words."
I do think that some articles give much more credit to kids than my experience shows. Kids need to learn to use the new tools, too. We can talk programming, but I see too many kids that are not able to use the most basic communication skills in technology. They may be great gamers, masters of iPods, and be able to steer MySpace & the Internet adequately. But, I don't think that the majority are fluent in blending that technology with their education and using all the tools that are "out there".
Myra, I agree about kids learning to use these tools just like we have to. I do know that if I tell my student about one thing, they take off with it quickly, learning to use it on their own with little instruction from me. I think that is the difference. They are quick learners and of course they have far more time to play with it all than I do!
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