It Seems Like Learning Is Not Going to Be Easy

Switching gears for this blog, I focused more on Miller and McVee.  Wanted everyone to get my point of view out of each book we have to read.  I am not going to lie, reading the beginning of chapter 2 kind of made me scared, not to teach but to integrate multimodal tools in the classroom.  I am willing to learn how to use them, I am just afraid I learn, the first day I step into my classroom I will somewho become nervous and forget.  After getting deeper into the chapter, I realized learning is a process we all have to do throughout our lives or we will never be able to move on, whether it be the teacher or the students.  It is sad to say that, "students in 21st-century classrooms don't know a worl without the affordances of these digital technologies, " which is so true, which is why as teachers or students, you have to be willing to learn even if you make a mistake (Miller, McVee 13).  Learning anything new, in this case technology takes a group effort, and input and support from your students and yourself, makes the transition a little more calming, and takes you from stressed to at ease, which is where I will be my first day, I just know it, I will be the teacher who rips her hair out the first day, I am exaggerating a little too much.  I am the type of person who wants everything to be right, so for me that is going to be the most difficult; to have to accept the fact that I will make a mistake and I will just have to learn from it.  Gee states that "Learning," "should be both frustrating and life enhancing, "this quotation I think is the most important one throughout the whole chapter, the one that future teachers should carry along with them, throughout the teaching process.  It shows that no matter if you are the teacher or student, there is always room for learning, and you should not be afraid to take the next step and hesitate to do so because in the end you will show not only yourself but your students, that this is your PASSION, and you are willing to do whatever it takes to engage them and make them become better students, even if it means learning something that might take you by surprise.

I do apologize, sometimes I write so much I forget that it only has to be a paragraph long.  Teaching is something I am passionate about, it is something I could talk about forever.  I cannot wait until the day when I am able to help students achieve there goals in life, and open them up to new things such as multimodality.