Juan Mata Wong's List: DGL presentation

• If you are texting, you aren’t listening
• 2.4 texts and read 2.6 during each class
• They’re just shifting their attention between two very different activities
• You can be in the middle of a classroom conversation, and suddenly a student will glance down at their phone, because they notice they’ve gotten a new message.”
• Not only is this behavior rude to other people in the classroom, it’s distracting, because the student isn’t placing priority on the conversation that’s taking place in class.
• you’re less likely to become engaged in curriculum
• there is a higher potential for cheating
• When students absorb material while sitting in a classroom, it decreases the amount of time they have to study.

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• • While many students do not believe texting 
    should be allowed in class, almost half feel guilty texting in class when it is not allowed, 
    and slightly more than half are distracted from class material when they text. The 
    majority of students send at least one text message in a typical class.

• These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need and demand.
• The primary sense of literacy still represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of the written or printed text.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society."^[3]

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• Literacy is the ability to read and write one's own name and further for knowledge and interest, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.

• Communication (from Latin "communis", meaning to share) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or a group of person.

• able to read and write

• A lack of opportunity to develop in multiple language modes could cause language to develop in one way among one group and make those kids unable to communicate with those who have developed multiple literacies.
• “Linguistic class divisions are growing in the U.S.,”
• Ironically, the problem may be prevented not by closing the digital divide by ensuring access to text technologies but by providing access to more traditional forms of literacy, like books.

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