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Padlet allows students and teachers to explore how they want to present information. I created a "wall"/"grid" design for my writing because I thought it would be more pleasing to the eye. I have only used Padlet in my student-teaching, four years ago, and I wanted to see what features I could use to create each post. I love that I can add designs from Canva easily. I appreciate the ability to be creative with the "wall" and the work style completed in this tool. Padlet is a user-friendly digital tool I will use more in my class this year.

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Technology Tools to Support Reading in the Digital Age (My Scholarly Article Choice)

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Technology Tools to Support Reading in the Digital Age (My Scholarly Article Choice)

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This article was written in 2012, a little over ten years ago. This article discussed the importance of incorporating digital technology tools and devices in the classroom to help increase students’ literacy skills. Biancarosa and Griffiths mention on page 142, “Technology can be more than a tool for drilling students on skills; it can be a tool for acquiring the vocabulary and background knowledge essential to becoming a skilled reader” (2012). I have seen in my own life, as someone who graduated high school in 2015, that digital technology did help me grow in my literacy skills. In my senior year of high school, we were given iPads to use. Our teachers were required to do more of our work on the iPad. I grew up with technology, so I adapted to it quickly. Now, looking at 2023, every student in my school has a Chromebook that is actively used daily. Through E-technology, students are given more ways to grow their skills as readers and writers. Biancarosa and Griffiths discuss the use of the power in the “voice-to-text” feature that was becoming more widely used, offering “readers with visual impairments or language-based disabilities access to texts” (2012, p.143). I think about a student I have who uses this feature on their Chromebook often due to their inability to write because of the muscles in their hands. My student is given an equal opportunity to complete work because of E-technology.

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I created this graphic on Canva of "The Learning For Justice Digital Literacy Framework" (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2023). These seven rules remind me if the importance in helping our students understand their digital footprints in the world. The more our students know, they more they will become well-equipped citizens in the community of the world.

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Brown and Black Simple Illustration Online School Welcome Back Students Instagram Post

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“As society and technology change, so does literacy” (NCTE, 2019). Our lives constantly change with the “new” technology that comes out yearly. We live in a time where everyone must be educated on how to use technology and literate about technology. Many of our students have been raised with technology, so we must offer them the skills to use it for educational, professional, and personal purposes.

“Participate effectively and critically in a networked world” (NCTE, 2019).
We have multiple forms of technology, especially the devices that most people have in their hands on a day-to-day basis. Our students need to be knowledgeable in how to connect to people on the internet, and they need to be knowledgeable in how to decipher different texts on the internet.

“Consume, curate, and create actively across contexts” (NCTE, 2019).
Our students need a vast pool of strengths in using and creating on multiple digital platforms and tools. Educators must encourage their students’ voices. If our students do not feel challenged to try different digital tools, they might not be willing to do it independently until much past our time in class. I think about when I wanted my students to create a podcast on Anchor. FM. Some of my students were struggling to create accounts, so one of my students recommended WeVideo. She had used it in her film class previously. The student felt safe making a recommendation that helped me and her peers. She and I were able to teach students how to create something new.

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Emojis, Hashtags, and Texting: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom

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Emojis, Hashtags, and Texting: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom

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In “Emojis, Hashtags, and Texting, Ph My!: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom,” I learned several ideas I could use in my classroom to tie together digital tools and the original text of Romeo and Juliet. In this article, I focused on reading about the specific activities that can be completed with Romeo and Juliet because I teach 9th grade Lit. My students either love or hate Romeo and Juliet. I find there to still be relevance in the power of choices throughout the story. I have never heard of “OMG Shakespeare” before reading this article. The use of humor and thoughtful analysis stand out to me. I outwardly laughed at “Yolo Juliet,” the remix of Romeo and Juliet (Falter and Beach, 2018, p. 5). I found the live tweeting of Romeo’s emotions at the crashing of the ball as a great activity for students. I am considering how I could have students create TikTok to review different acts within Romeo and Juliet as a grade. I appreciate the idea of students making their own multimodal creations of a scene “to compare their analysis of the original text with other classmates’ interpretations … in a gallery-walk-type activity” (Falter and Beach, 2018, p. 8). I believe implementing these ideas and activities will encourage my students to learn and have fun with their work.

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Power Reading: Agitating with Critical Disciplinary Literacy Think-Alouds 

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Throughout Dyches' "Power Reading: Agitating with Critical Disciplinary Literacy Think-Alouds," I felt drawn to create this checklist of the steps needed to have an "Agitating" Think-Aloud. I admire how Dyches and Mr. Lucas help students question standards and other works to help them see the bigger picture. "Agitating, in the best sense of the word, connotes an unyielding commitment to provoking thought that effects change" (Dyches, 2022, p. 75). To bring change, we must challenge our students and help them reflect on their own values.

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Biancarosa, G. & Griffiths, G.G. (2012). Technology Tools to Support Reading in the Digital Age. The Future of Children, 22(2), pp. 139-160. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23317415

Dyches, J. (2022). Power Reading: Agitating with Critical Disciplinary Literacy Think-Alouds. English Journal. 111(3), 75-83.

Falter, M.M., & Beach, C.L. (2018). Emojis, Hashtags, and Texting: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom. In Dail, J.S., Witte, S., & Bickmore, S.T. Young Adult Literature and the Digital World: Textual Engagement through Visual Literacy. Rowman & Littlefield. (pp. 3-16).

NCTE. (2019, November 7). Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age. NCTE. https://ncte.org/statement/nctes-definition-literacy-digital-age/

Southern Poverty Law Center. (2023). Digital and Civial Literacy Skills. Learning for Justice. https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/digital-literacy