Hello! I'm an education professional living in Montana. Trained as a humanist, I've developed interests in cognitive science and teaching and learning. I've also been interested in the use of digital media in instruction. I'm here to learn more about the interplay of media in communicative tasks and to better understand how multi-modal literacies differ from traditional literacies.
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Nowadays,people prefer traditional ways of learnig than using the old methods such as books which they find bery boring and a waste of time and effort,but with only by one click in the browser,you can find infos about any subject you are searching for.
One of the biggest differences I feel is the question of choice. In the past, we followed text books, from cover to cover, in order of chapters and reading from left to right, top to bottom. Nowadays, when googling, children read in various ways and choose the order of what they´re going to learn according to their interest. Of course some sites are designed so that kids are more likely to click on one icon than another, but we usually choose the path our searches go. I think this is the first break in traditional literacy. Moreover, people who don´t read are sometimes very successful in using apps for everyday activities, which clearly shows that our old concept of illiterate or literate has gone down the drain.
Easy example would be visualization of traditional stories. Many literatures students would have to read for their growth of arts and moral sense can be done through movies where empathy can be publicized along with discussions.