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   A recap of my response paper...     Our youth are almost entirely educated through the use of the internet. Smartboards, iPads, and Chromebooks are commonly used in the classroom, and many districts had already switched to allowing students to submit the majority of their work to Google Classroom. For a large portion of their education, children are  reading digitally. That is how our world works today; our world is changing, and education should change with it. "Next year, for the first time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which administers reading, math, and science tests to a sample of 15-year-old students in more than 50 countries, will add an electronic reading component. Among other countries, the United States will not participate." (Rich, 2008, pg. 10) Countries all over the world are beginning to incorporate digital reading into their testing, attempting to make their education more relevant to how students are raised...

      `     The most important takeaway from the readings was the concept of multimodality in the internet era, where it led to a breakdown of the traditional "programmer" and "user" or "consumer" positions in media (Gillen & Barton 2010 p. 5).  New digital literacy evolves and expands to larger populations, the concepts of media, scholarship, and collaborative working alter in conjunction. This knowledge must be merged into my reading method, or else I possibly miss out on valuable educational possibilities in the implementation or critical literary practices that I use.       "The distinctive contribution of the approach to literacy as social practice lies in the ways in which it involves careful and sensitive attention to what people do with texts, how they make sense of them and use them to further their own purposes in their own learning lives" (Gillen and Barton, 2010, p. 9). That quote makes me think about how s ocia...