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In reflection to last weeks research and post, this weeks prompt of #picturebooks on other forums of social media, I explored instagram. In doing this I have discovered that while social media in the classroom can be useful, when researching something so broad such as this hashtag of #picturebook a variety of different materials and information from babies to costume play arise. In the middle years using a hashtag research project may be relevant if the idea is  to use reflection of relativity or assessment of active engagement and affective ITC searching strategies (unlike mine), however if it is only for the use of find a particular image or text this may become far fetched and the development and production of incorrect information may arise. This also only partially caters for diversity as if you have a students who is unaware or unable to use the correct format and searching skills they will be lead off topic and meaning is lost for that students educative learning. Therefore while the use of a hashtag can open up a new world of possibilities, if used incorrectly it can also open up a world of incorrect or wrongly lead educative learning.    

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When looking through tumblr with the hashtag #picturebooks I came across this blogger and instantly my mind began working on its own about the meaning behind this picture. To me it symbolises many children in schooling as they become lost within something that fits in their hands, in this case a book. As I looked around I noticed children doing just as this small girl is, however only one was lost in her book, the others, myself included, are all glued to technology becoming lost within the digital world around us not noticing or challenging or minds, just sitting numbingly hands on phones and iPads not thinking just playing games or typing text messages. So to me this picture and the little girl across from me becoming lost in an adventure of a book challenging their minds noticing more within their mind frame than the others of us, symbolises and reiterates how and why the art of reading and the mind are important in our lives. I didn't seem to find an interesting blogger that displayed how and why picture books are great but this one really opened my eyes to the world around me.

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A front loading activity that can be used for the short video ‘Governor Author Phillip and the Eora’ can use these images from the clip asking student questions, figurative and literal, about how and what they know about the information in the images such as: what is different, what is the same? How do we know what era/time this clip might be set? How do we know this? Students can make predictions about what might happen if/if not the events that occurred happened or not, what would of happened to this environment? They can identify and discuss the different boats and how they identify the culture driving each (as all appear the same). This can then be related back to historic journals/videos/books in order to develop a greater understanding of this era in time and how,what and why these things happened, tying In With history

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1. In the silence of the cold dark night, I say by a hollow tree. Food became a dream, with no strength to go in, I became transparent, dead.

2. Food wasted by those in power, while we sit, just out of reach.

3. Another front loading activity to be undertaken could be describing the potential context of what a student perceives will happen in the text through observing one page in the text. As well as this a Y chart can be undertaken and from there students create short and sharp in pact sentences using the words that have written in feels like, looks like, sounds like, using of course the image shown by the teacher, concentrating one only one page/image

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My current perspective towards social media and the classroom is conflicting. I believe that all learners should be given the opportunity to access and learn how to use different forms of media, however is the classroom the correct place for it? While on placement I witnessed learners accessing social media, however this was not in the form of Twitter, Facebook, tumblr and so forth, it was in the form of email and blogging. The teachers were educating their students in how to have a work front and present themselves in a manner that is acceptable in the work force through using emails during their market unit. They also shared blogs, however the teacher is the one who blogs for the whole class, however the students would have an input and would use this opportunity to display their ideas and conceptions on topics such as camp and gaming. This form of social media in the classroom I feel is acceptable as well as classroom wall blogs (as in the prompt) however allowing learners to access Facebook Twitter and tumbler in primary school, I feel may be slightly less acceptable as students then become prone to cyber bullying and use it as an anonymous source, as research shows.

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Within my past week I have experienced multiple aspects of literacy text. I have been exposed to multiple forms of text on screen, from Facebook to emails and just reading the news, I have exposed myself to reading theoretical journals, student work, novels, educational text, text messages, social media text such as snapchat and Instagram. I have also been exposed to text within football matches on screens and billboards, on the train seats and surroundings as traveling to the MCG, and many more forms of text. Out of all of the forms of text I have been and have exposed myself to, the most common text I have used within the week has been phone text followed by theoretical journals. It wasn't until I sat and really bought about the places I have been exposed to text, when I realised how we are influenced so heavily everyday by visual literacy in which we encode into meaning to produce our own understanding of the world around us through text.

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‘Are You Seeing Me’ -Darren Growth.

A prediction activity that can be undertaken within relation to the text cover, learners can be prompted to write a blurb of what they predict will happen within the text by just looking at the picture and words. Learners can be prompted to brainstorm their ideas by making a concept map,visualisation, drawing what they think the big idea is and preparing questions that relate to the main ideas that they develop through out the sessions. Prompts such as: What does the title tell us?, what message do you think is being portrayed within the images?, do you think this book is fiction or non fiction? To allow for stimulation of higher order thinking and problem solving for prediction activities.

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When I was in grade 5 I had a teacher who loved everything literature. We were read to endlessly, off of the top of my head one of the text that stands out to me is 'Danny Champion Of The World' by Roald Dahl. My teacher had us sit and listen to him read chapter by chapter, reflecting as we went along. Once the text was complete we watched the film and acted out specific sense of the text either physically, with puppets, books or drawings. Everyone in the class was entirely focused on the story line through the different voices, and gestures made, which were reflected in our own remakes of the text.

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"At the end of the day we endure much more then we think we can"

Frida Kahlo