Monk needs help opening a book

It should be stimulating to assist any individual who requires our help. Monk needed assistance and he got. As teachers/professionals, we should not loose sight of the fact that our students will continously need our help. We need to have patience and endurance in order to take our children from traditional literacies and lead them into the technological era of this century.

New literacies create fear,anxiety and uncertainity among many persons especially adults.Young children are more enthusiastic and fascinated about technology. They should therefore be scaffolded in the using of new technologies so that they be comfortable as they experience new literacies.

Wow! Monk is inadvertently teaching us some lifelong lessons here. As educators we need to receive the morale of this exercise. There are always going to be those of us who are ignorant of one thing or another. We need to be facilitators of their learning. Seeing and doing are the best ways to make a concept clear. Let us therefore not presume/assume. Let us be patient and tolerant of those who learn at a slower pace. And let us herald the ignorant on to the era of NEW LITERACIES.

Insightful !! As educators/ literacy professionals we should never practice to be assumptive about children and what they know. With regards background knowledge, if they do not have it, we need to create it for them because it provides the springboard for learning.

This is a good example of how new information needs training or modeling to provide skills and correct use of the unknown task. Monk is having difficulties relating to the presentation of text inbook form as all he knew was how to use a scroll. He is uncomfortable as he believes that the only way he knew was easier. Changes take time for acceptance and literacy is changing in its' demands for use and understanding. With repeated help he is now able to successfuly interact with the material.good.

New defined . This just goes to show that at some point in time we encounter new things . Then.... it was the book now... its the internet /NEW LiTERACIES . Overtime with exposure and purposeful interactions this too will become second nature.

This video is very funny, but it's true. That is why we must not take for granted at times that our students know how to do certain things. For this man he is learning for the first time how to use a book.He is experiencing a new literacy moment.

I think Monk needs new literacies I enjoy listening and viewing it It just goes to show that as teachers we need to equip students with all the skills necessary for them to become competent.

The book is new literacy for monk at that point in time, he has already acquired traditional literacy which the scroll represent. As teachers we have to be cognizant that what seem simple to us (as a result of doing the same thing over and over) may prove difficult to our students. Provide them with adequate opportunities to learn

the vehicle of new literacies is the web. persons who are not incline to using web technology will be in the same position as this monk. however, if he is provided with the correct help in his teachable moment then he will know how to use his new literacy device