M3B3: Leveraging Tools, Texts, and Talk in My Teaching Context
As a global history teacher, I often find myself using a variety of non-digitized sources to enhance the overall message and meaning of the lesson. However, with the massive increase in technology and social media, attempting to just use print-based media and literacies has become challenging. It is imperative that we, as educators, find a way to balance the usage of technology and print based media and literacies. In the article The Importance of Still Teaching the iGeneration: New Technologies and the Centrality of Pedagogy, Thomas Philip and Antero Garcia bring up incredible points about the misconceptions that come along with digital literacies and introducing technology into the classroom. Philip and Garcia state “The context, not the tool, is what is important when making decisions about utilizing new technology within learning environments. Simply making a mobile device available to students or using these devices to study issues important to them does not bri...