My literate life is composed of
basically the same think every day. I’ll read the occasional magazine while
getting my hair done or waiting at the doctor’s office. Although, the majority
of my reading comes from either my phone or my laptop. When checking my mail
ill first scroll through the yahoo news since the pictures and catchy titles
are right in my face. Yet social networking sites are where I do my majority of
my reading. I can sit on Twitter for hours throughout my day just reading
random, probably really pointless, tweets that my peers are posting. I don’t
look at Facebook all that often anymore but when I do I really enjoy reading
some of the post that people share. The posts can range from being
inspirational to horrific but it’s always an interesting short read that I
enjoy. As for writing, I can’t think of many times that I find the need to
write outside of school. I work at a day care where we have sign in sheets for
the parents, and I just simply have to write the dates on those. Or if a kid
gets hurt I have to write a brief incident report. And that’s pretty much my
writing for the summer. Students always say their handwriting is horrible the
first weeks of school because they haven’t written that summer and I am defiantly
one of those students.
As a
student who is also a future educator, Lunsford’s article makes me realize a
little more than I did before that the way of doing things are constantly
changing and improving so my job as a teacher is to keep up with the times and
adjust my teaching strategies to fit how my students are learning and interacting.
In her article she wrote, “And that’s where
the real problem may lie- not with student semi-literacy but with that of their
teacher.” My goal is to not be that
semi-literate teacher that is stuck in the old way of doing things but to find
a middle ground between the traditional ways and the new, updated ways.
