Education ~ with a different approach.

The final couple weeks of  class have been very informative and quite appealing. Seeing the progression of curricular expectations has been beneficial for my personal learning and an understanding that I can apply to my future practice. Students have a keen sense of learning when it comes to the world around them, so by incorporating the newly advancing influences, theories and impacts perceived globally; students can use this knowledge in order to develop themselves into citizens suitable in a critical and global sense. The course material proved to be easy to understand yet very protrusive in its manner. The topics and subjects of the various 21st century literacies proved to encounter issues and dilemmas in a present context but also provided necessary altruistic factors so that students had an intrinsic source. It is often quite difficult to get students wanting to learn at an implicit level without any extrinsic motivations. Allowing students to learn through meta-cognition i...

Through the continual studying, reading and learning I have been doing through my undergrad studies, I have come to a very important topic of educational discussion. When depicting the key elements of what comprises our curriculum today, it is beneficial to think, discuss and talk about the 21st Century Literacies and what they are defined as. As mentioned in the previous blog post, the traditionalist style of schooling has taken a rather large transition. In correlation with the advancement in technology, medias and global connections; I talked about the impact and analysis behind only a few of the key literacies, though they are vital. Media and digital literacy were of those two that have been shifting in a progressive manner (Berger et al., 2009). Yet even though the advancement of literacies may be essential to keep things relevant and updated for education, the most important literacy that ushers a complete connectedness with each and every 21st century literacy, is in fact Crit...

As mentioned in a previous paper-based assignment (as written by me, Daniel C, 2015) completed for this class;  " Most of these literacies that have developed sprout from many interdisciplinary criteria that students can learn and invoke upon the world. These criterion`s are based upon what global inquiries lay within our current knowledge as well as how this shapes the 21 st century. As the world is advancing, the literacies have been categorized into nine different yet transverse understandings, comprising of; Multicultural, Moral, Mental Health, Media, Global, Financial, Environmental, Digital, and Critical literacies. With the curriculum methods being put into place by the Ministry, the educators have been prepared to teach by recognizing and adapting the big ideas, big understandings, and big skills. Finally, once educational professionals teach the interdisciplinary literacies in their classroom students can be well educated and become 21 st century multi-literate adv...

Back to the blogging game!  Just as a reiteration for the newer viewers, my name is Daniel Cursio and I am a Concurrent Education student passionate in learning about all there is about Education and its expansive field. Comprehension, meta-cognition and present-day Literacy are all important factors in advancing my knowledge regarding the topic of Education. I am an avid student and always capable of learning new material. In saying this, I hope that I will acquire as much information as possible in respect to the current literacy for students around the world. This will help with my inquiries towards current literacy and how factors such as social media, newspapers, television shows, increased types of communication, and so on, can all have the potential to enhance literacies and peoples capabilities to learn. I hope this was a concise summary, and that your expectations are similar to mine. Thanks for reading!

I have been an advocate for individualized learning for a while. Since my first year of University (approximately 3 and a half years to date), I truly thought that as long as I knew the curriculum I would become a great teacher. But there are so many more factors thrown in then just the bare minimum criteria for teaching. I have learned over the past years, in not only academic settings but social/work settings too, that everyone has their own ways of learning and their own muse. Not one person in this world is the same and in turn lead me to come to the conclusion that I should become an educator who can intangibly shape education to conform to a child's educational needs. This should be done through a hopeful attempt at establishing great rapport with my future students, yet making sure I remain entirely professional. But how should I be able to assess such a vast amount of individualized assignments, answers and learning??? Well, the answer is a difficult one but should be ...

Personally, education is more than just a stage of schooling in anyone's life... It is a passion, and a form of lifestyle that truly illuminates the spark of learning. I love the whole concept of teaching and learning and its reversed effects on people. Young individuals especially, take a stand when being educated on subjects that excite them. But presently, there is a lack of differentiation in teachable lessons and a continuation in less-motivational academic material. Students need to flourish and educators need to help. It is not enjoyable, if you read dry text in class that could be easily done in the quarters of ones home. It is not a passion, if you listen to an authoritative figure that is demanding you recite relay-able information constantly. And finally it is not fair, if you and everyone else around you is being tested on the same course content, at the same pace and in the same method. Everyone has had the tests where they have no idea what to write, or are t...