What are "multiliteracies" as described by Cummins et al.? How does this relate to Egbert's assertions about the need for authentic materials to support ELL students' reading and writing? Discuss how blogs and blogging can be a tool for achieving these ideals with ELL students. Finally, describe your own experience creating your blog this week. Was it harder than you thought? What ideas do you have about the kind of stuff you want to blog about (besides what is required for this course)?
For Cummins, "multiliteracies" not only consist in reading and writing in one language. Is the diversity of language, knowledge and skills that the student bring into the classroom. Now a days, the students are exposed to new forms of literacy. We as teachers, need to have a deep understanding and scaffold our students to continuing building their knowledge and multilingual literacies. Technology will be a bridge for motivate, and engages our students to progress in their education.
The blogs will be an authentic tool for Egbert’s assertions about the need of authentic material to support ELL student’s multiliteracies.
I really enjoyed creating my blog :) (even tough I found myself lost when putting a code for a new template) but, I look forward to learn and practice using and posted new things on my blog. It is a really easy and fun tool that we can generated to communicate and expand our learning experiences. I cant wait to implement this great tool into my future classroom.
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2 comments:
I agree that technology can be a tool towards motivating students. I really think that a teacher can reach all students, at least on some level, through the use of technology and the students' authentic material.
I agree that as teachers you need to continue building their knowledge and using technology is a great tool to do it with. It will motivate the students and make learning fun, instead of the normal just reading from a book they have the opportunity to use the internet and go to different web sites and read what they want to read not what is told of them.
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