I am a little confused about this article.
I agree that technolgy is dramatically increasing the amount of opportunities students have to express themselves in ELA classrooms. However, I think I am confused on how or why teachers should ''treat the reading and writing of new media texts in any different manner?''
I am not even sure how one would go about that task. If or when I have a blog set up for classroom discussion, I would expect my students to write on it as though they were writing an essay or a paper and I would explain that in a very clear manner.
Did I interpret this correctly?
Kristin
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Hi Kris, I see your confusion. But the statement is just the opposite of how you are interpreting it. The question is "why would we treat these texts any differently?" That is, why wouldn't we include ALL "texts," print and non-print in the study of English? We would. So you are right. The NCTE statement is simply affirming that we can't ignore new media and cling to only those texts that have "ruled" ELA classrooms for decades.
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