The New Media Literacies Staff's video covered many different skills that are important to acquire and maintain in today's society. These skills, as mentioned, are needed for basically all areas of life. They can be used in the classroom, in the work place, and in social activities. I think that these are skills that teachers definitely need to have and make sure to pass on to their students. Judgement is one of the skills mentioned and I agree that it is important to know if information you find is reliable or not. Also, negotiation was mentioned, which is a skill that helps a person work in groups of different types. Appropriation is a good one for teachers because teachers need to be able to explain content in a meaningful way so students can understand better and learn easier. I really like that they mentioned play as a skill, saying that it is the "capacity to experiment with our surroundings". I think that it is important to be willing to explore and try things and learn. There will certainly be a lot of playing in my classroom because science is a subject that requires experiments and exploration and lots of learning.
Another skill mentioned was transmedia navigation, which will aid in finding resources of different types and gaining large amounts of information. Simulation could be useful to teachers because by using this, they could help their students visualize what they are explaining. Visualization will help with this as well. Multitasking is very important on a day to day basis. Multi tasking saves time and can be very helpful in relieving stress by checking off multiple things on your To Do list at the same time. Performance was another skill mentioned. I think that you should always do your best in whatever you do, and make sure that you are satisfied with your performance at the end of each day. There is not time for What ifs in education. Teachers need to put their best foot forward every day in order for their students to be able to succeed and put their best foot forward in the future. Some other skills mentioned were collective intelligence and distributed cognition, which were not explained in detail. I think that these are skills that would aid in gaining and retaining information, and are important. I think that I possess quite a few of these skills, though I need to work on acquiring others such as better appropriation, simulation, collective intelligence, and distributed cognition. I think that it is important for me as a future teacher to acquire the new media literacy skills that I do not have and work to improve those that I do possess.
Another skill mentioned was transmedia navigation, which will aid in finding resources of different types and gaining large amounts of information. Simulation could be useful to teachers because by using this, they could help their students visualize what they are explaining. Visualization will help with this as well. Multitasking is very important on a day to day basis. Multi tasking saves time and can be very helpful in relieving stress by checking off multiple things on your To Do list at the same time. Performance was another skill mentioned. I think that you should always do your best in whatever you do, and make sure that you are satisfied with your performance at the end of each day. There is not time for What ifs in education. Teachers need to put their best foot forward every day in order for their students to be able to succeed and put their best foot forward in the future. Some other skills mentioned were collective intelligence and distributed cognition, which were not explained in detail. I think that these are skills that would aid in gaining and retaining information, and are important. I think that I possess quite a few of these skills, though I need to work on acquiring others such as better appropriation, simulation, collective intelligence, and distributed cognition. I think that it is important for me as a future teacher to acquire the new media literacy skills that I do not have and work to improve those that I do possess.
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