Chapter 7:
" Student-teachers are likely to learn about what might be possible from the models they encounter, and there was no evidence here that any had encountered practices that could be described as transformative."
First off in this chapter I could really relate to the pre-service teachers and their experience with digital media and practices. I felt that the book was describing me. The I stumbled on this part of the text. I looked back at when I was a student teacher. The first host teacher I worked with was very old school and their was no digital practices what so ever in her classroom. With my second host teacher, I saw some new digital skills being implemented into her classroom. She was also a younger host teacher and that is why I think I saw more technology into her classroom. If new teachers are being hosted by older teachers not using these digital literacies then how are they to be used or see them used.
Chapter 8:
" In many ways the school's context has changed radically over the last decade, but at the same time we can see that the school fumbles in its response to this development, and remains static and protected against technology, even if the students 'bathe' in technology on their leisure time."
I agree the school setting has change drastically from what it use to be. Its gone from paper/pencil, books, and chalkboards to computers, Ipads, and Smartboads etc... We have all this technology around us and it seems that the young is using technology more outside the school setting. When I was in high school not too long ago, we had computer labs, laptop carts, and all this technology and I can probably count on both my hands how many times I got to use those computers throughout my four years. We are just letting this technology that can do great things collect dust or use it for something like testing. Do we really want our youth to think that the technology in school is only used for testing?
Chapter 9:
" When it comes to popular social practices with visual texts among youth, including video gaming, web surfing, and now, uploading short films and television shows to video iPods, it is often unclear to educators what stance we might take."
I have always been a visual person being an art teacher and all. I usually will look at a picture or image to figure what I am suppose to do before reading a bunch of instructions or text. I feel that our youth are like this as well. There can never be too many visual aides. When it comes to teaching verbal instructions aren't always enough. Some students need step by step examples or visual aides where they actually can see what they are suppose to do next.
My Illuminated test is on the chapter 7 quote I chose. If our new teachers coming in aren't experiencing digital media as a student teacher then the cycle will never break. I could not get authorstream to work for this Illuminated text so I just added it in a link.
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