Nouf Alshreif

Creating a classroom culture that is empowering. Empowerment includes the use of language creatively while implementing technologies in ways that strengthen students’ voices, investing in their differences and promoting their sensitivity to feelings and to sharing of knowledge and their inspiring personal experiences.

Alshreif, Nouf jwlv@iup.edu 11th October, 2016   Technology Project Title: Multilingual Writers in the Writing Center. Project Focus: I will explore the literature that relate to tutoring strategies to accommodate the needs of multilingual writers. Learning Goals: I am interested to research this topic because I am really interested in the literacy practices of the […]

When I was in elementary school, I hated the computer class because the teacher was focused on making us fast. I hated that I COULD NOT finish any of her tasks on time. I am not saying that I was SLOW, but she is kind of marginalizing students who were not able to deliver quickly. […]

Literacy: More than the ability to read and write. Ability to comprehend secondary discourse (Gee). Ability to interpret text. Multimodality technology in the digital age. Graffiti. Critical thinking. Reading the world (Freire) using life experience. NLS (new literacy studies) (Street) new conceptualization power on the screen rather than the book. Connected to social context. Functional […]

  My initial intention was to go literacy as well as technology free. I recognized that it is impossible to go literacy free because I will drive and read the road signs inevitably. This is only the first reason. I realized that going literacy free is impossible for a mother of two kids who need […]

I was successful because I am a busy mother of two. It is easy to get involved in non-stop activities. I wanted to talk to my family back home but I could not. I missed watching my favorite show “Say Yes to the Dress.” I learned that I can not literacy free for five minutes […]

I am eager to know the answer to the question raised in the movie. People have no control over their destiny. That is a lesson learned, but why?

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Make a blog entry focusing on the following: Primary Blog Question When compared, the two film clips help illuminate a key question for this course: How has our relationship to technology changed over time? Our relationship to technology changed the ways through which we perceive literacy. Literacy in the new media age is becoming associated to […]