Name: Heljane I.
Guero Section: BSED-FIL3A
Subject: EDUC 130 – Building and Enhancing Literacy Across the Curriculum
My Reflection About the Subject
This course introduces students to the worldview of various literacies across curriculum.
It reviews literacy and defines the concept of new literacies. It also compares and contrast
traditional literacy and new literacy. The module ends with the discussion on the importance of
acquiring new literacies to cope with the demands of today’s society. As the chapters end, I
gained a lot of learning in this course. Allow me to highlight those knowledge and skills I
grasped in it.
Functional literacy defines as teaching of reading and writing. It includes appropriate
verbal, cognitive and computational skills. Here are some functional literacy programs:
agricultural, health, industry, family planning, home making, arts and culture, and technical
vocational programs. In new functional literacy or specific literacy aimed to prevent job-skill
mismatch, significance approach, it starts in the workplace, uses a diagnostic approach, identifies
turning points in economic life that may act as the incentive to learning, assesses the limits of a
short-term intervention, and look for generic skills.
Integration of new literacies in the curriculum. Students must become proficient in the
new literacies of 21st century technologies. Multi literate learners are mastered in ICT nature of
reading, writing and communication. The impact of new literacies in instruction are engagement
in literacy activities is being transformed today like at no other time in history.
Financial literacy allowing learners to open their minds and hearts about the value of
currency, having a credit card, budgeting money, saving money as well as if they wanted to buy
something. It is very important because it can help students how to manage nor divide equally
their daily expenses like for example buying groceries, paying bills, buying something they need.
Take note that financial literacy is a key in a child’s success not only in the four corners of the
classroom but also in outside like everyday life.
Media literacy is the capability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media. This
literacy allowing students to be informed and have a critical understanding in the field of mass
media, used of techniques and the impact of media to them. It gives opportunity to the learners to
identify the various types of media from its broad scope of sources and digest the information
brought by it. Media literacy refers to the steps of critically analyzing and learning to make an
own message either in print, audio, video as well as multimedia. Let us bear in our mind the
following: media messages are constructed nor created by someone, produced within economic,
social, political, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Let us remember that media literacy has its
own languages across forms, genres, and symbol system of communication. It plays a role in
people’s life by letting them understand the social reality. Things to consider for us to be media
literate are learning to think critically, be a smart consumer, appreciate point of view, create
media responsibly, know the role of media in our culture, and understand the author’s goal.
Digital literacy refers to the active participation in the society that involves the
knowledge, skills and behavior of people including the effective use of digital devices for
communication, expression, collaboration and promotion purposes. In digital literacy involve the
cybersecurity, it is the way of protecting systems, networks and programs from the digital
attacks. Cyber attacks usually aimed to accessing, changing, or destroying information, stealing
money from the users and disturbing your programs. For us to avoid the cyber threat let us
remember the following: monitor the behavior on social networks, keep your devices safe,
understand how to make strong and best passwords, handle unsafe content and consider the
safety for the future. Be a good cyber citizen, know the importance of cyber citizenship, observe
proper netiquette and practice the ten commandments of teacher cyber citizenship.
Social literacy shows the level of skills in being able to respectful relationship. It is the
give and take interaction of one another. Social skills are used to communicate others everyday
in a various way both verbal and non-verbal. Emotional intelligence is all about self-awareness,
empathy, motivation, self-regulation, and social skills. People skills is the ability to listen, to
communicate and to relate to others on a personal or professional level. We need to have the
empathy, having skills in resolving conflicts, having enough patience and tolerance and
understanding.
My what If’s Positive and Negative
My what ifs in this subject is none. I learned many things in this course. So, I have
nothing suggestions in it nor any what if.
My what ifs to the instructor of this subject. To Sir Guillermo Bello Jr., you are such a
wonderful teacher to us. You have given us the incredible and useful knowledge. You allow us
discover our own abilities. Thank you so much, Sir for your kindness to all of us. I’m hoping that
many more students will make inspire through with your wisdom and passion to teach.
Sir, I having nothing negative thoughts to you but a bulk of positive ones. Your
enthusiasm that you show to us. Your way of acquiring our capabilities to understand the various
significant topic in our subject. Your efforts to imparts your personal experiences to us. All of
those things, we appreciated it a lot.
Hoping to have an instructor like you in the future days. We will miss you sir, someone
who make jokes for us to laugh that makes us forget and relieve in tiredness cause of different
tasks that we needed to comply. Someone who will encourage us to strive and conquer our
desired dreams. As this semester near to end, I would like to extend my way of giving thanks to
you sir. Thank you very much for everything you bestowed upon us. I know this message is not
enough to thank you Sir.
As I end this message, I can proudly say that you are effective and passionate instructor I
ever encountered. Again, thank you so much, Sir. May God grant all of your desires. Keep safe
always, Sir Jun.
