Reading and Discussion #7

Reading #1:

The three ideas I will use to inform my PSA of the need to teach critical media literacy are the following:

"Youth between the ages of 8 and 18 have increased their daily media usage from 7:29 hourse in 1999 to 8:33 hours in 2004 to 10:45 hours in 2009 with media including TV, music, computer, video, print and movies."

"In addition, the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) standards recognize the relationship between digital tools and the development of print literacy."

"Alvermann found that teachers and teacher educators (of pre-service and in-service teachers) choose to exclude these forms of literacies in their instruction, mostly because they feel that students already have plenty of time with digital literacies outside of school."

Reading #2

After reading "Critical Pedagogy and the Teaching of Reading", what I learned about critical pedagogy was that there is not always one answer.  When teaching reading, the author might have various messages they are trying to send and it is valuable to have that pluralism and diversity within a variety of different student answers.

I know a concern of other teachers is to lose their sense of power.  I do not have any concerns about losing a sense of power.  I feel like students are much more engaged when they can share a unique opinion or belief about the topic being studied.  The only concern I might have would be the ability to assess everyone fairly or my administration not being supportive.