Week 6 Assignment 2.1

 In the article, Middle School Science Teachers’ Confidence and Pedagogical Practice of New Literacies, the authors discuss that in this current time in order for students to be fully literate they must become proficient in the literacies of  twenty first century technologies. The article also talks about the importance of allowing students and teachers to have access to these new literacies so that they can further drive science instruction using technology. 




The article, Using Social Networking Sites to Facilitate Teaching and Learning in the Science Classroom discusses using social networking tools to enhance the learning in a science classroom. The article talks about the class using programs like Edmodo and other platforms in order to create a virtual classroom that contains all the resources they may need.