Adobe Spark Page and Literacy

https://spark.adobe.com/page/mphmlGF5VtkID/

The link above is part of an in class assignment, in which I created a presentation using Adobe Spark Page in order to show the information that I have gathered based around literacy since the beginning of that class. I had to present what forms of literacy are most important in terms of my content area (social studies) and what skills students need to learn in order to be literate in these areas.

The presentation gave me an opportunity to express multiple performance criterion, namely those in 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2. The presentation allowed me to demonstrate my knowledge of literacy and its various forms, such as digital, media, and visual literacy, as well as knowledge of what skills need to be taught to students in order for them to get the most out of interpreting information in a variety of forms. Along with this, the presentation was a platform to share how educators be effective in teaching literacy skills by working against misconceptions of media and knowledge of interpretation. Since part of the presentation was focused on my subject area of social studies, I was able to discuss how these skills fall into my subject area, such as the importance of media literacy to interpret modern day politics, and visual literacy to understand context and meaning behind primary resources. Finally, since literacy is based around critical thinking and interpretation, some of the best ways to teach skills in literacy is by having students work together and think beyond the face value of information being shown.

My perceptions of literacy have changed through going through the information for this project. Although I knew the importance of literacy, I never thought about how I would use it effectively in my classroom to help open students up to more content that I am teaching as well. My hope is to continue to create new ways to teach both literacy skills and content information within the same classroom setting in interesting and unique ways.