Why Bother Theorizing Adolescents' Online Literacies for Classroom Practice and Research?

When teachers, teacher educators, and researchers tap into young people's interests in producing online content, they open themselves to appreciating a wide range of skills that might otherwise go unmarked in the everyday routines of the classroom. These skills are central to the development of critical readers and writers that teachers say they value. Theorizing adolescents' penchant for creating online content is merely a start. Educators must now ask the young people they teach, conduct research on and with, and teach about in teacher education classes for their input on how online literacies should be embraced in the regular curriculum. حين يفتح الأساتذة ومعلمو الأساتذة والباحثون وسيلة لدخول انتباهات الفتيان في إنتاج محتويات على الشبكة العالمية فإنهم يعرضون أنفسهم لتقدير مهارات واسعة النطاق قد لا تلاحظ في حركات الصف المعتادة. إذ هذه المهارات لب تطوير القراء والكتاب النقاد التي يقول الأساتذة إنهم يقدرونها. إن تنظير ميول المراهقين لصناعة محتويات على الشبكة العالمية مجرد البداية. يجب على المعلمين الآن أن يطلبوا من الفتيان الذين يدرسونهم ويقومون بالأبحاث عنهم ومعهم وبالتعليم بصددهم في صفوف تعليم المدرسين لاقتراحهم بشأن كيف من المفروض أن يدخل تعليم القراءة والكتابة على الشبكة العالمية في المنهاج الدراسي العادي. 当教师、教师教育工作者,与教育研究者利用年青人对线上内容写作的兴趣的同时,他们亦扩阔了自己的视野,因而觉察到一广大系列鲜为日常课堂所注意到的读写技巧。这些技巧是发展有批判性思维能力的读者与作者所必需的,亦是教师声称他们珍而重之的技巧。 为青少年对线上内容创作的爱好建立理论只是一个开始。教师教育工作者现在必须研究如何把线上读写能力纳入常规课程中。这方面的研究必须征询他们所教导的年青人的意见,与这些年青学员共同研究,并指导这些年青学员有关如何把线上读写能力纳入常规课程中。 Quand les enseignants, les formateurs, et les chercheurs s'interessent a l'interet que portent les jeunes a la production de contenus en ligne, ils se mettent eux-memes a valoriser toute une gamme de competences qui seraient restees inapercues dans la vie quotidienne de la classe. Ces competences sont tres importantes pour le developpement des lecteurs et scripteurs critiques que les enseignants disent valoriser. La reflexion sur cet interet porte pour la creation de contenus en ligne en est en verite a ses tout debuts. Il faut maintenant que les enseignants interrogent les jeunes auxquels ils enseignent, conduisent des recherches sur eux et avec eux, et fassent une place dans la formation des maitres sur l'impact que la lecture-ecriture en ligne pourrait avoir dans les programmes scolaires. Когда учителя, преподаватели педвузов и исследователи хотя бы поверхностно сталкиваются с тем, как учащиеся создают онлайн-тексты, им открывается широчайший диапазон умений и навыков, которые они могли бы так и не заметить в своих подопечных. Эти навыки являются краеугольными для становления критически мыслящих читателей и авторов, а ведь учителя утверждают, что умение мыслить критически теперь весьма ценится в учебном процессе. Подведение теоретической базы под склонность подростков к созданию онлайн-текстов – это только начало. Настало время спросить молодых людей, которых мы обучаем, которые принимают участие в наших исследованиях и о которых мы ведем разговор со студентами – будущими школьными учителями: как именно следует включать онлайн-грамотность в современные учебные планы. Cuando los maestros, los educadores de maestros y los investigadores explotan el interes de los jovenes en crear contenido en la red, logran reconocer una gran extension de destrezas que podrian pasar desapercibidas en la rutina diaria de clases. Estas destrezas son basicas para el desarrollo del lector y escritor critico que los maestros dicen valorar. Formular teorias sobre la inclinacion de los jovenes por crear contenido en la red no es mas que el principio. Los pedagogos ahora les tienen que pedir insumo a estos jovenes—a quienes ellos ensenan e investigan, con los que conducen investigacion, y sobre quienes ellos ensenan en las clases de educacion—sobre como su conocimiento sobre el uso de la red debe ser insertado en el plan de estudio diario.

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