New Media and New Literacies

      This week's readings were captivating, I learned a lot about multiple modalities and remixing, these concepts which we use everyday. Something that got my attention was the connection between remixing as discussed in the book, remixing as we do it with our students during projects and remixing as for this class. Specifically for this assignment all of us are reading the same material but we also are required to incorporate another study (paper) different from the book. Does it looks like Learning by doing? Is this the " pedagogy of play" also? (Vasudevan, Dejanes & Schmier, 2013) (p. 24) Loomis (2019) admits that teachers often use remix activities without considering them remixing (p.239). Also, Erstad claims that the concept of remixing is nothing new (p.53).  I have seen and done remixing several times without knowing that this mix of strategies was a remix of digital literacy. As a teacher I try to use diverse teaching strategies for my students's diffe...

  “what counts as literacy, how literacy changes in response to the new media landscape, and what value we should ascribe to the new forms of communication that continue to emerge and evolve online (Jenkins, 2009)."  📖--->💻 Traditional literacy or digital literacy? This is an interesting topic where researchers, professors, parents and young scholars' debate about. Are they really reading and as a result learning? Why is it difficult to accept change and an evolution in literacy?       We are evolving digitally and one of the main reasons are the digital-age jobs, as some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare when they begin looking for digital-age jobs (Rich, 2). We do not know how we ended up having well organized and great content books. All we know is that, people started and developed a way to express themselves in order to transfer knowledge about different subjects from one individual to the other, so from one g...