I have asked my students to think about two questions all semester: Should all teachers be technologically literate - or be willing to learn? What do we mean by technological illiteracy?
Dina Tillman, in her post on January 24, 2010, suggested that technological literacy "depends on who you are around."
That got me to thinking and I agree that the context does matter. I think I am technologically literate, and probably most of my colleagues and quite a few of my students would agree. But if I were visiting Pt. England School in Auckland, N.Z. or Noel Elementary School in Noel, Missouri I would not be ranked as highly in technological literacy as I am in the College of Education at the University of South Alabama.
So what? Well, here's the important point that I took from Dina's post. Who will be around my students when they have their own classroom? Here are some possibilities:
First Graders:
Third Graders:
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Room 10, Pt. England School
Sixth Graders:
Room 18, Pt. England School
Seventh Graders:
Seventh Grade Ning, Noel Missouri
High School:
This is one of many films on the Cinema Owls YouTube Channel. Check out the others after you watch this one:
Cinema Owls, Kelowna Secondary School, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
So if these will be the students of my students, what do we mean by technological literacy if it is determined by whom "you are around"?
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