Blog Post #2

Technology is constantly changing and evolving with multiple dimensions. In this week’s readings, the articles and resources presented various strategies for increased technology productivity. In particular, the article The Journey from Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency and My daily info-wrangling routine focus on developing routines, which essentially contributes to using tools that are effective and disregarding, or discarding tools that are less rewarding.  Also, the article Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning and the video InfoWhelm and Information Fluency focus more on the importance of information fluency. I personally relate to the author’s view in Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning, “being digitally fluent means using the tools of technology to do things completely differently than I’ve ever done before.” Thus, by taking an innovative approach to technology tools and using these resources in various contexts, challenges the fluency of learners. Though the articles have different ways of approaching and presenting the information, I believe they all have the same central message. Digital Literacy and Information Fluency is an ongoing arena of context and changing knowledge. I believe the idea of using PLN’s contributes to my learning goal of implementing strategies for language learning. This learning goal is especially important for me in that it challenges me to discover new methods of instruction and delivery.