(A) What I think now & have my questions been answered:
Being literate in the 21st century requires more than the ability to read and write, it requires the understanding of concepts and notions that have been read across an increasing variety of digital, text, visual and oral formats. The implementation of merging and integrating technologies into literacy allows students to; develop critical thinking, which is the skill to question and examine content and compare different viewpoints; apply skills obtained outside of school with technology, into classroom tasks; and experience a unique contribution to their literacy learning, allowing them to think creatively when completing a task. The combination of the two also allows students to practice …show more content…
Thus I have developed my personal theory that implementing technology with music into literacy practice can create unique learning experiences, providing students with a variety of learning approaches and the chance to creatively use technology. Gibson (2011) supports my personal theory whilst expressing that technology and music can contribute unique teaching strategies to students’ literacy development. A unique learning experience was apparent in my mentor’s class and my findings, when music and technology was used to enhance the students’ competency with an oral presentation of a poem. Students sang lyrics from iPads and one controlled iTunes on a laptop. The aim was to assist students to competently display a fluent speech, voice projection and body language, then for these skills to be carried over to their following oral presentation, with the aim to have students producing fluent reading of their poems. In relation to my personal theory this learning experience shows that my mentor teacher not only provides a unique learning experience, but also uses a variance of learning approaches. Paquette & Rieg (2008) supports my personal theory around implementing technology and music into literacy, whilst emphasising on how the competency of students’ automaticity can be developed from the …show more content…
This allowed for me to gain an understanding of why it is important for students to learn literacy with the assistance of technology, what strategies teachers can use when teaching literacy with technology and the current theories on teaching literacy with technology. Whilst investigating these three questions, the relevant literature, PI experiences and findings, have all had an impact and influenced my personal theories that I developed. I have also become more knowledgeable on the importance of combining literacy and technology and have gained a variety of teaching strategies that I know I will use in the future when teaching literacy. My use of approaches to collect data was helpful to gain a sufficient amount of artefacts and information, as well as different viewpoints on the
Being literate in the 21st century requires more than the ability to read and write, it requires the understanding of concepts and notions that have been read across an increasing variety of digital, text, visual and oral formats. The implementation of merging and integrating technologies into literacy allows students to; develop critical thinking, which is the skill to question and examine content and compare different viewpoints; apply skills obtained outside of school with technology, into classroom tasks; and experience a unique contribution to their literacy learning, allowing them to think creatively when completing a task. The combination of the two also allows students to practice …show more content…
Thus I have developed my personal theory that implementing technology with music into literacy practice can create unique learning experiences, providing students with a variety of learning approaches and the chance to creatively use technology. Gibson (2011) supports my personal theory whilst expressing that technology and music can contribute unique teaching strategies to students’ literacy development. A unique learning experience was apparent in my mentor’s class and my findings, when music and technology was used to enhance the students’ competency with an oral presentation of a poem. Students sang lyrics from iPads and one controlled iTunes on a laptop. The aim was to assist students to competently display a fluent speech, voice projection and body language, then for these skills to be carried over to their following oral presentation, with the aim to have students producing fluent reading of their poems. In relation to my personal theory this learning experience shows that my mentor teacher not only provides a unique learning experience, but also uses a variance of learning approaches. Paquette & Rieg (2008) supports my personal theory around implementing technology and music into literacy, whilst emphasising on how the competency of students’ automaticity can be developed from the …show more content…
This allowed for me to gain an understanding of why it is important for students to learn literacy with the assistance of technology, what strategies teachers can use when teaching literacy with technology and the current theories on teaching literacy with technology. Whilst investigating these three questions, the relevant literature, PI experiences and findings, have all had an impact and influenced my personal theories that I developed. I have also become more knowledgeable on the importance of combining literacy and technology and have gained a variety of teaching strategies that I know I will use in the future when teaching literacy. My use of approaches to collect data was helpful to gain a sufficient amount of artefacts and information, as well as different viewpoints on the