Reflection of the article “Now more than ever: Will High-Tech Kids Still Think Deeply?”
The authors consider the advantages and disadvantages of information technology on children. Before flooding school with technology, critical thinking skills should be used to consider how technology will be affecting the way people think and the modes people need for learning. Now with modern technology, two dimensional quality of linear thinking is being replaced by multidimensional thinking. If we use technological tools well, we will be enhancing our modes of thinking and our capacity for critical thinking. So, it is necessary to developing a new literacy that will incorporate all the types of literacy, circular, linear and multidimensional. Today’s children are not learning with books. It could be disastrous for higher education and research. In my view, as a teacher, I should include oral tradition through plenty of physical activity, singing, making things with hands, listening to and reading literature, drawing pictures with crayons and paints, sending and receiving letters and pretending, as part of our literacy program. Otherwise, they will never develop reading and writing skills. I think, in accordance with traditional literacy, digital literacy has to be developed in children. It is a special kind of mindset, a special kind of thinking. It also involves retrieving data from the web, which requires the user’s knowledge. In the past, we have used manipulative to visually represent mathematical ideas. The possibilities provided by new technologies to represent ideas continue to expand; some include graphing calculators, spreadsheets and interactive geometry programs. In this way, today’s children will develop a new literacy which incorporate all types of literacy, circular, linear and multidimensional.
References
Tarlow, Mary-Claire & Spangler, Katherine L. (Nov 2001). Now more than ever: Will High-Tech Kids still thinks deeply? The Education Digest, PA Research II Periodicals. 67(3), 23-27
Pearson Greg and Yong Thomas (2002). Technically speaking: Why all American need to know more about Technology. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press.
The authors consider the advantages and disadvantages of information technology on children. Before flooding school with technology, critical thinking skills should be used to consider how technology will be affecting the way people think and the modes people need for learning. Now with modern technology, two dimensional quality of linear thinking is being replaced by multidimensional thinking. If we use technological tools well, we will be enhancing our modes of thinking and our capacity for critical thinking. So, it is necessary to developing a new literacy that will incorporate all the types of literacy, circular, linear and multidimensional. Today’s children are not learning with books. It could be disastrous for higher education and research. In my view, as a teacher, I should include oral tradition through plenty of physical activity, singing, making things with hands, listening to and reading literature, drawing pictures with crayons and paints, sending and receiving letters and pretending, as part of our literacy program. Otherwise, they will never develop reading and writing skills. I think, in accordance with traditional literacy, digital literacy has to be developed in children. It is a special kind of mindset, a special kind of thinking. It also involves retrieving data from the web, which requires the user’s knowledge. In the past, we have used manipulative to visually represent mathematical ideas. The possibilities provided by new technologies to represent ideas continue to expand; some include graphing calculators, spreadsheets and interactive geometry programs. In this way, today’s children will develop a new literacy which incorporate all types of literacy, circular, linear and multidimensional.
References
Tarlow, Mary-Claire & Spangler, Katherine L. (Nov 2001). Now more than ever: Will High-Tech Kids still thinks deeply? The Education Digest, PA Research II Periodicals. 67(3), 23-27
Pearson Greg and Yong Thomas (2002). Technically speaking: Why all American need to know more about Technology. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press.
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