My elementary career took place in Newmarket, Ontario at St. John Chrysostom Catholic School. The school was fairly new, but you wouldn't guess with its dated materials. Click the Globe to return home. You can pause the song in the top left corner lol
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My elementary school career went from the years 2002 through to 2012 and while we did use some media literacies in our learning, for the most part we did stick to the basics; text books, paper, and pencils. My first experiences would likely be watching different educational or fun VHS tapes or DVDs, like Bill Nye the Science Guy, with these videos we would learn about different concepts or write a short paragraph or paper on a film.
Click here for my favourite Bill Nye Science Guy Episode ever! I remember dinosaurs always being so interesting to me as a kid, but we never learned much about them in school. I remember one day, I was brought to school on a snow day and the teacher rolled in our TV, pulled out the Bill Nye VHS and we were go on Dinosaurs, the unit that never made it into my school learning.
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Further into elementary school, we used the desktop computers in the library to play different educational games on the internet, including PBS Kids Games, do research for projects, or watch videos to learn about different concepts or topics.
Click here for one of my favourite games as a kid!
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We were taught to create powerpoint presentations and formative research skills on the desktop computers, but for the most part multimedia literacies in my elementary school were not common.
While these tools were useful for my learning, I do not think that they truly helped me with my learning in elementary, because it was so infrequently that we used these media literacies. I believe that if I had the opportunity to use these different media literacies more often, I would have benefitted from the multimodal aspect of media literacies. According to the studies we have been looking at, students with experience of multimodality in their schooling have demonstrated more creativity and engagement with their writing (Howell, 2017), something that I could have benefitted from. There needs to be a recursiveness to the learning using multimodality in order for students to reap the benefits (Howell, 2017), and this consistency was something I lacked.
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