Reading Response:
Next, think about the primary subject that you hope to teach. How did you learn what you know in that subject area?My content area is Language Arts. Back in the (my) day, this referenced mainly writing and reading. Stressed topics included short essays on various subjects, vocab and reading across many genres. One thing I never quite mastered was spelling. The main ways I learned these things was through direct instruction, feedback from papers and tests.
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Next, identify concepts or ideas which you learned that are probably no longer considered to be important to the student's classroom curriculum today.
Spelling is getting to be a lost art. I don’t see vocab as heavily emphasized either. When it comes to reading, I have seen a higher expectation to go beyond simple comprehension to synthesizing that information to the larger world.
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Explain why you think those ideas are no longer important.
For spelling, I think the obvious answer is how easy it is use spell check. Technology also makes it easy to look up definitions of words. Reading for simple comprehension is not enough in today’s highly connected world.
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How are these concepts or ideas impacted by technology?
These all are greatly effected by technology. Children now need to be savvy many kinds of literacy. No one can afford to be only a mindless consumer of all that can read in all the forms that takes place. No one can afford to only be able to respond to the world in one way. Writing skills need to cover multiple areas where writing is required or done for pleasure.
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