Things I like to do in my spare time.
hanging out with my kids
Monday, December 10, 2012
Final Blog
I have learned a lot this semester about how to better teach the students i will have in my classroom. I can apply all that i have learned in this class. There are two areas I would like talk about Digital literacy, and Critical literacy. Digital literacy is very important in engineering and technology. Technology is anything that makes your life easier. Digitally literate person should have a sound knowledge of the most commonly used technologies, and a knowledge of how to use such resources to learn. So to be able to use technology you need to learn how to become more digitally literate. Critical literacy is also important because you need to be able to do research on your technology. If your not using Critical literacy to determine where your sources are coming from you will end up with information similar to the Martin Luther king example in class. Information that has no relevance to the subject. I really enjoyed learning about all the different literacy's in our class.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I liked how you mentioned critical literacy as evaluating information on the web. I think it also applies to thinking about all of the facets of design. It's important to think critically about how your design affects lives in both negative and positive ways, and it's important to think about how designs might help some groups of people more than others.
ReplyDeleteI recently found these books titled "Engineering and Social Justice" that I want to read, because I think engineering is such a great field for making a difference in society and advocating for a better world.
Thanks for your final posting.
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Synthesis-Lectures-Engineers-Technology/dp/1598296264/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1355283664&sr=8-2&
keywords=engineering+and+social+justice
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Social-Justice-University-Beyond/dp/1557536066/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355283739&sr=1-1&keywords=engineering+and+social+justice