Technology in the Classroom

Selber, Stuart “Multiliteracies for a Digital Age.” Southern Illinois UP, 2004.

Students are entering a world that has only been attainable for that past few decades; they are living in a techno-world. Stuart Selber, in “Multiliteracies for a Digital Age,” Which means that educators should not only keep up with the technology their students will be expected to work with, but that they should know MORE than those students, not only speaking on technological know-how, but on the cultural and social issues that surround the emerging techno-society. In order to do this, Selber calls for a “postcritical stance,” where “one locates computer literacy in the domain of English Studies while operating under the assumption that no theories or positions should be immune to critical assessment” (3). Which means that I, as a future teacher of English , will one day have to prepare students to analyze using technology. And while at first I found this near impossible, as I’ve engaged in the discussions, blogs, and tweets of my fellow classmen, I realize that through the technology I was first apprehensive about I myself have gained literacy in technology, and have discovered that it can indeed be beneficial to education. While I am still a little slow at the blogs, and the tweets, and I find the chatrooms quite difficult to keep up with, like an abstract painting, I can appreciate the beauty technology offers in a world of education that is increasingly growing dim. Maybe by advancing our students using technology, and by incorporating blogs, tweets, and what have you, students can actually gain understanding of the world they are in