As a person with multiple blogs, a youtube account, a facebook account, a digital camera, two laptops, and many other assorted pieces of what make up our new technological world, I had realized the importance of teaching our students how to utilize technology. However, the idea that this technology itself is part of our framework of literacy is not something that had coalesced in my brain until just now. Jim Burke outlined that use of discussion boards in the chapter, and I remembered using something similar for English, Women's/Gender Studies, and Biology classes in undergrad; I thought of it then as a tool for discussion, and it is, but it's also more. Technology has its own type or branch of literacy, and it's extended our traditional understanding of literacy - or at least it should. I'm still struggling with this idea, of how it all really clicks together, but I think this process of stumbling to understand is important. Because when I finally do have that epiphany, that moment where it all clicks, it will resonate all the more after my confusion.
I think that all of our teachers need to grapple with this issue and the changing nature of literacy and all education and learning and thought and knowledge in our "brave new world" (165... the amazing Aldous Huxley before that). Alison said it herself in her EDTP 504 blog: "what is important is not always easy." In fact, what is important is often what's hardest for us to understand, and that struggle to understand adds an extra depth to our knowledge. The point I'm trying to make is that we as teachers need to struggle and work to expand our understanding of literacy so that we will be successful in this flattened world and can help our students be the same. We and they cannot afford to fall behind.
Of course, now comes the issue that Lauren brought up in her blog: how do we figure out what is "enough" for us to teach our students? How do we figure out what it is they really need to know? How do we stay on the "cutting edge" when we things change so fast that we can't figure out what and where the cutting edge is?
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