Digital Blog Post #D
Three Concepts to Reflect
Chapter 4, "Teaching Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship", is a chapter enriched with terms and definitions of the internet. Being a internet blogger myself now, I found this chapter interesting because of how familiar I am with the information. The term, e-books, as mentioned in the textbook is defined as "books that can be read digitally on a computer or a device known as an E-Reader" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). Devices such as Apple's iPad and the Sony Readers allow for digital access to books, magazines, newspaper, and other printed materials. I currently own Amazon's Kindle Fire which gives me the ability to read books or textbooks online instead of the printed version. "In a higher education study, students who used e-readers in a first in a first-year reading and writing course at California Lutheran University showed increase academic performance and higher levels of engagement with the material" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). I think it would be useful to use my Kindle Fire or another e-book in the future for my classes.
The second term that caught my attention is critical reading, which is a "different approach that teaches children, adolescents, and adults how to read online material and decide for themselves its usefulness or appropriateness" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). Part of this term is identifying and deciding what is useful information on the internet. I related to this term very much because I feel like college students use critical reading in every day life. When doing assignments that require research and study, students have to be able to decipher what will be useful for their assignment and what would be nonsense information.
The final terms I am mentioning and am familiar with are cheating and plagiarism. Again, as college students, these terms are important. As defined in the textbook, plagiarism "is the direct copying and misinterpretation of someone else's work as one's own". Cheating "involves using technology to access information without permission before or during a test or sending information about a test to other students before or during an exam" (Maloy, Verock-O'Laoghlin, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014). Being in college classes before, I have had many ways plagiarism and cheating have been defined but I like how this textbook did it. I find it useful and as a reminder for how to properly do schoolwork such as papers and assignments. Many students have been subject to it, but the less that do it the better.
To depict how popular e-readers have become, here is a little funny cartoon!
http://www.toondoo.com/privateView.toon?param=8JK2pKJjLefRNutmdkM9mZQPKXzfi%2FPvjAjE%2FvxkGHgHTm7Q4eul1Q%3D%3D
Resources
Hunt, Alaina. (2015, September 27). "E-Reader Fun" ToonDoo. Retrieved September, 27, 2015, from
http://www.toondoo.com/privateView.toon?param=8JK2pKJjLefRNutmdkM9mZQPKXzfi%2FPvjAjE%2FvxkGHgHTm7Q4eul1Q%3D%3D
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.
Unfortunately your link to ToonDoo led to a 'restricted' site and you need to use the embed code anyway to put it on your blog instead of a link (even if you ever need to link something in digital writing always hyperlink unless it is for the resources). You probably need to make it public instead of private too? Though most students are aware of plagiarism and cheating, they still do it - in fact, most stats show close to 75% admit to cheating - such an interesting contradiction. How can we as teachers better address these issues?
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