How have you experienced TRANSLITERACY and how it relates to your experience as an educator or provided learning for others around this concept?
Transliteracy is the ability to listen to, read, understand, synthesize, and apply what we learn over different medias. Therefor it is a 21st literacy skill that pushes communication into the online world of learning. Since experiencing online learning due to COVID 19, I have learned that it is imperative for students, of all ages, be taught transliteracy. I am currently experiencing transliteracy in my classroom cohorts this year. Students are not transliterate in 3rd grade. However, I think they are going to be way ahead by the time they reach high school. I mean, can you image where these younger kids will be when it comes to their online and computer skills? They will be lightyears ahead of where high school students are today. That being said, we have to teach students how to be transliterate, as well as teach them digital citizenship. This brings me to my driving question and action research. I believe, that students ages, 8 - 18, need to be taught how to "behave" and "protect" themselves on the internet and social media platforms. I look forward to beginning my research and learning more about how we can teach transliteracy efficiently, as well as, teach digital citizenship.
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Janine Burt
11/16/2020 08:11:43 pm
Kimberlee, I like the way you make the connection between transliteracy and digital citizenship. I can see how we have to consider that it's not just having technology skills but how they are applied and shared that becomes the bigger issue. Before the digital age, it was understood that a literate citizenship was a way to ensure a healthy democracy. Maybe that idea can be expanded upon to include transliteracy and we can ask the question, what is our responsibility as users of all kinds of media platforms. I share your concerns about teaching children to use technology safely.
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AuthorMy name is Kimberlee Nelson. I am a mother of two and a 3rd grade teacher at Irene M. Snow Elementary School, in Napa. Archives
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