Working Through the Words

As you can probably guess from my lesson last week, using digital texts to read and write is extremely important to me. The idea of encouraging communication across generation and across culture through our writing is now at the tips of our fingertips for most of us. However, I am reminded of a quote from the first chapter of Hawley Turner and Hicks that read: “Crafting arguments in a digital world could be one of our greatest opportunities to improve dialogue across cultures and continents or it could contribute to creating or continuing bitter divides” (pg. 7) I won’t even go into how this quote could be applied to all of my distant relatives on Facebook who plan on posting any opinion they have ever had on my wall. I just wanna breaifly focus on the first half of the quote based on the standards we read about and chapters 2 and 3 of Hawley Turner and Hicks.   The only standards I have really been working with over the past year of my time in Education classes have been the mi...

I have been thinking a lot about the future of technology within the classroom, and going through these past few readings, its been something that’s been even more on my mind than ever before. Recently, everything revolving around the internet has been on my mind due to the never ending battle surrounding net neutrality that’s being held by the government, it makes me wonder what the future of digital literacy will really be. Listening to Danah Boyd discuss her own growth through the use of internet really makes me wonder about all of the ways that students might not have the same experience as access to the internet may become more limited. According to Boyd, the internet is where she found herself and where she created an online identity that allowed her to explore her sexual identity and create a community for herself. As we possibly lose access to the internet the way that school technology has begun to rely on it, does that mean that we are going to have make major adjustments in...

I had recently learned about Kimberle Crenshaw and her work with intersectionality during the research I had done for an Honors Project I was conducting on intersectionality and social justice education. The article I had read by her was actually a piece written as a law document explaining the horrible abuse faced by women of color and the systemic factors involved in their lives that prevent them from getting the proper treatment that they deserve. Reading her words had been very empowering last semester, but actually hearing her speak sent chills down my spine, especially as she and the crowd named the women who had been killed in acts of police brutality within the past two years. Crenshaw at one point said, “i f we can’t see a problem, we can’t fix a problem” and that part really stuck with me. When talking about intersectionality, it’s interesting to see it as something that society kind of forgets about. For example, when Crenshaw was listing off the names of the men and wo...