New Literacies of the Internet

This video was full of explicit and useful information for implementation into the classroom. I am quite interested in how you provide explicit scaffolding for students when engaging with technological forms to teach them not only the written but the implied expectations of the forms. So things like tone, etiquette and address.

It was perhaps of most interest to me in that it made explicit how things like using a search engine requires students to engage their own background knowledge, in much the same way as reading a novel, in order to identify appropriate and result producing search terms. I always like to link existing knowledge and skills to new knowledge and skills so a lot of this video was satisfying for me and very useful for classroom practice.