The End is here..

Out of all the things that I’ve learned in this class, one of the most important things I will remember is to stop thinking literacy is all about the hardcore reading and writing. Literacy is just like physics, it’s everything! We tend to exclude so many things that are not academically enough for school but when we think about it, it is the same thing and it teaches us the same thing. I also became more aware of different learning styles. Since my learning style is probably more on the “common” style, I never realize that other people can learn differently. In fact, I probably have an odd learning style too. With these different learning styles, teachers must consider multiple ways of teaching so every child has the opportunity to succeed. Teachers play a really big role in a student’s life so having the right teacher will benefit a child a lot. We must first educate our teachers because our generations are always growing on technology. Teachers are learning to how teach students to fit the appropriate style of teaching.

One thing that really stuck with me is Appropriation in Literacy Learning in Deborah Brandt’s article. We as students learn things inside the classrooms and bring it into use in our outside lives. That is the point of schooling. We take what we learn and arrange it, fix it, modify it, and use it. I never realized before that I do this every day but why is using someone else’s idea in my paper called plagiarism if I don’t cite them? I never cite my teachers for teaching e something. I just do it. My point is that we plagiarize all the time. It might be someone else’s idea but they did not put it together the way we did.

One of the most funniest thing we did this semester was making the trailers for our book club group! I loved it because our trailers was awesome! I also had a lot of fun watching everyone else’s trailer. I learned how to use movie maker so that was exciting! The book was fun to read; it brought back so many memories.

I had a lot of fun in the article group reading about so many things that I’ve never realized before. This is back to the first point I made about children having different learning styles. Some kids aren’t fortunate enough to come from supportive families so as future teachers; we must learn how to incorporate things that they are familiar with. We can teach them the conventions of writing poems or something through having them write their own songs or something. Find motifs, theme, morals, etc. for these songs! Basically all the different article groups represent a different type of learning style but obviously it is limited to just that. One thing we must remember is that we can’t just assume. We can’t assume that certain type of students will learn this kind of way.

The class ended on a very good note. I honestly did learn many ways on how to become an up to date teacher if I ever want to become a teacher. If I do, I will definitely incorporate all of these things that I’ve learned and not be a boring teacher with tests and quizzes! Exams do not test your intelligence level, it tests obedience (I forget who said that).