This week we in class we talked about literacy in technology and hoax or real websites. We started off by reading an article about media literacy. This covered eight guidelines for teachers. We broke into groups and then formed questions that promote critical thinking and then presented these to the class using a few ways. The first one was a program downloaded onto a computer. Secondly we used a called m.socrative.com which teachers can use to quiz students and make multiple kinds of quizzes. I actually really liked this website.
Secondly we each looked at a website to try to decide if it was a real or hoax website. The one I looked at was actually pretty interesting. It was about a place called Ruritania. At first I was confused at trying to figure out if it was even real or not because I had never heard of this country. I then read that it was a made up place for a college class to help them form politics in a country so that they actually get a hand in all of this. I also read that they tried to make it so only people from the class could access the website but they could not. I like that they tried because people could come across this website and just assume that it is a real place.
I think that this week was really helpful because it gave me some great information about literacy. I also really liked learning how to use the different ways to use clickers in a classroom when quizzing students. I thought the part where we looked at websites was really cool. There were some websites out there that you really have to look at closely and think about to decide if they are real or not.
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