What an experience this has been learning from world reknown educators and philosophers! I have never learned so much. They have pushed me beyond my secure and safe boundaries of pencil and paper. This week, at the Summer Institute in Mississauga (through MSVU), I have been exploring the social tech and digital worlds (previously so foreign to me), and am coming to understand the negotiation of meanings within these worlds as "New Literacies"(Lankshear, Knobel). So far, I have "mucked about" in the Virtual World, YouTube, video creation, games, blogs, Facebook, and Flickr...I am, slowly but surely, with the help of these experts, acquiring literacy, constructing identity and space in these forms. I know...it's about time!
My eyes have been opened to new possibilities and many more uncertainties. My narrow definition of literacy is, once again, being expanded and challenged. This is amazing stuff!
I am excited, yet slightly apprehensive... next week, we will be combining Digital/Tech Literacy with art in our construction of identity and place. Are they kidding me? I'm being pushed off the edge now! Please...please...put a fork in my eye...now!!!
Daytripping...no, not at Burk's Falls
But, why are we not moving????
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