Module 3, Blog Post
As has been a theme throughout this New Media and New Literacies endeavor, technology is important and unavoidable in the modern world but our lessons should not be driven by technology alone (Aguilera 2017). The way that I have come to think about it is that technology should be a means to facilitate literacy skills in a new format. If we as teachers are not careful, we could easily fall into a habit of making technology the focus of our lessons, interfering with literacy acquisition rather than fostering it. In using these digital mediums to teach literacy skills, student’s must examine the context and impact of digital sources (Aguilera 2017). In much the same way that students have been taught in the past through more classical mediums, students must evaluate these new media/technology sources for author/creator meaning, credibility, purpose, and bias. We as teachers can engage students in meaningful conversations about new literacies and help them to become comf...