Thursday, October 9, 2008

The Gee Article about Innovation Strategies for learning in a global age

In the Gee article innovation its about how our kids today have a problem with their literacy. He states in the article that we need to basically change the way we teach children today. The world is becoming a more advanced world when it comes to literature and digital media. You have to make sure you stay on the same level with it because if you don't you might find yourself lost. He feels that if we don't change it than a lot of children will fail and won't be able to learn the correct literacy as they should being that we are in the 21st century. James also state that our country has a very big empty space where our education for kids should be. Also that there are a lot of skills in digital media today, but there are also those who aren't as skilled as the others. He strongly tells us that everyday the education level that we are learning today is getting very advance and we need to start preparing our students now while they are young before its too late. Some kids don't comprehend as well as others when it comes to digital media. One thing he says that i can relate to is have a parent or relative read to you at home on a daily basis, so that when you do learn things in school your mind and intelligence is already functioning at a high level of education already. I know my sister was always reading the dictionary and my mom had her reading all the time, it really paid off. She's a straight "A" student and is able to adapt to anything thrown at her. No matter how advance the education might get she can easily adapt. So by students getting more training at home when it comes to literacy it will have a huge impact on their lives.

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