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Welcome Back! Starting Round 2: Linking Literacy and Curriculum

Hello, and Welcome to Round 2 of blogging about my journey as an education major at Saint Michael’s College! It was a long and enjoyable summer, but I am definitely glad to be back at my home away from home (where Fall is already in the air). Year three of my studies is off to a busy start— especially in the Education Department, where this semester I will be studying the ins and outs of middle and high school literacy and curriculum. To kick off the academic year, my peers and I dove right into learning about how literacy and curriculum are constantly changing with new theories and studies, innovations in technology, and practices that teachers develop when adjusting proven strategies and techniques to their own styles. More importantly, my classmates and I placed the future of literacy and curriculum (that is, the literacies and curriculums we will be teaching) into perspective with the growing influence of technology in our digital age. In both my Literacy and Curriculum cour...