Re:reading

My one-sided response to some of Sara Kajdar's "Conversation"

Kajdar's "Big Ideas"

• Kids are multiliterate
• Literacy connects us in a dynamic way
• Kids still want to know "why" they are doing something

"Kids come to us multiply literate" (6).

I ask: Multiply literate or access to multiple devices?

We must teach students the skills
to be digitally literate
(and sometimes
they teach us).

Research without digital literacy.

Digitally literate research.

"Literacy is social, active and connective" (7).

I ask: How do you plug your classroom into the world?

We have to start by teaching community within the classroom.

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"We are doing this in order to..." (7).

I ask: Do we think about why we teach the way we teach?

Embracing digital literacy leads to...

Creativity.

Freedom.

A new way of being heard.

Here is the work of a student who never wanted to speak in class.

Students like Jassar show us the map.

We can't ignore it.

Jassar: "How can this place be about learning if [...] what I see doesn't even exist?" (11).

We can't teach digital literacy in analog.

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