Description: Understanding Trends in a Time of Change
As a teacher and a reader, I love to learn new words. It expands my vocabulary and my understanding of things. I was blessed to learn new words and expand my understanding of the reading brain as I read the book, Reader, Come Home , by Maryanne Wolf. And as an added bonus, this book also amplified my view of teaching readers in the digital age.
I learned that I want my students to be “biliterate”, which means they will become “expert, flexible code switchers between print and digital mediums”. By teaching the students this skill, I will give them an important tool as they grow up in the Information Age.
This skill is important because the devices in our digital age can be a distraction – children spend a LOT of time looking at screens on phones, computers, iPads, etc. They attend to their devices and then to their environment in “continuous partial attention”, a term coined back in 1998 by Linda Stone at Microsoft.