Weekly Reading 12

1: To help students use their own voices for advocacy & social change.
2: To build students' ability to be active, thoughtful "readers" or interpreters of the media messages in their cultural environment.
3: To develop students' skills in using digital technology tools.
4: To increase student motivation and engagement in the classroom.
5: To promote creativity & self-expression.

"School leaders can inspire educators by helping teachers make large and small steps toward embracing new ideas and instructional practices." (pg. 170).
Teachers are always learning new ways to teach. Learning from more experienced leaders will motivate teachers to try what the leaders are suggesting. I think it is important for leaders to help teachers so that they are not on their own when learning new ideas and instructional practices.

" When teachers infuse digital and media literacy across the curriculum, it requires that educators use texts- including textbooks, newspapers, TV shows, magazines, books, movies, videos, games, and online resources- beyond their function as conveyors of information."( pg. 171)
I think that it is important for digital and media literacy to be used in many subjects. This gives students different ways to learn the information. It also allows students the opportunity to find information from different sources and compare and contrast the two ways they found the information. Also with using media and digital literacy across the curriculum the educators are helping students understand how to read and understand different messages from different media sources. This will be helpful to the students when they are getting older and need to understand the different messages behind the picture.

"When students have opportunities to actively participate in dialogue in the classroom their writing improves."(pg. 175)
I feel this quote is also important. The more practice that students have the better their writing will improve. Also the opportunity will allow the students to ask question and get answers right away instead of going home and not understanding why their words don't sound like they did on their paper as it did in their head. When we write down a sentence like we are talking it doesn't always sound like we want it to. Allowing students time to practice this in the classroom lets them understand the way they are talking isn't always how we want to write our words down that way.
I know that when I write a paper I write it as I am talking but then I have to have someone proof read it because I write like I talk and that is not the proper English to be writing in.