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This has been one of the most beneficial classes that I've taken in my graduate career. I always felt trapped by the traditional ways of teaching and assessing students and this course showed me how using digital texts and multimodal assignments are even better for students than traditional pen and paper. I feel like there is so much focus on test preparation and the ability for students to write the proper essays to pass the regents and not nearly enough time spent on enhancing student's ability to analyze and understand materials around them. We are preparing students for jobs and tasks that are not even created so we need to teach students the proper ways to use a variety of materials and think critically about them.

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- Using digital texts allows students to connect with a text in the way that they engage with information socially
- Engaging with digital and multimodal texts allows for new and more meaningful ways of thinking
- Writing isn't the only method that should be used to improve understanding

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- Teachers should choose tools that have affordances that will meet the needs of the specific assignment
- Give students the opportunity to choose which digital tools they would like to use to give them ownership of their work
- Incorporate different modes of images, audio, video, and printed text within lessons to model how digital texts can be used successfully

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- Art
- Skits
- Dance
- Music
- Video
- Podcast

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- Taking understanding from one mode and moving them into another mode
- Allows students to further their meaning making
- Presents opportunity for collaboration and students learning from multiple modes and each other
- Use of Sketch to Sketch allows students to draw what the story or theme means to them

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- Expose students to a variety of multimodal texts
- Incorporate multimodal resources within assignments and units
- Allow students the opportunity to analyze various types of modes

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- Resources that allow us to make meaning through various senses
- Can be sound, images, tactile, scent
- Allow focus on affordances because different modes allow us to do different things in relation to the same topic

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- Combining multiple modes to create the most meaning
- Students get the opportunity to determine which mode would be the best representation for an assignment
- Students live in a world that is dominated by viewing information in multiple modes. Incorporating this into the classroom will be more meaningful.
- Students will be required to have digital skills and media representations for their jobs in the future

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How to Incorporate New Literacies in the Classroom

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How to Incorporate New Literacies in the Classroom

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- Digital poems

- Multimodal text formats
- Use of collaborative resources
- Podcasts
- Blogging
- Fan fiction
- Memes

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- Shifting from printed text to digital components
- Embracing new technologies and ways to embrace new concepts
- Involve more collaboration and are less centered on the author
- Digital technology should be incorporated directly into the curriculum and not viewed separately