PR Module 2 SLP

Diana Martinez

ENG SLP2

Trident University

Dr. Stephens

Technological Literacy Narrative

I started reading and writing when I was 5 years old. I really loved to read and my first books that I read were Babysitters’ Little Sisters which were my favorites. When I was in fourth grade, I had started to read Harry Potter books and several other long novels. I came to realize that the much reading that I did at home played a very significant role in my literacy skills because I became a better writer, speller, and reader in my entire class. I remember the time when I was in second grade and there was a spelling bee and my better literacy skills enabled me to win the contest in the class, which was about the word in question. I always loved Language Arts since during my free time at home, I used to write and read my own stories. The first creative writing experience that I had was the time when I was in elementary school, a time when I used to write my own stories. When I was 5 years old, I had the first experience with the interaction with computers. This was the time when I used to play computer games, a move that later made a significant influence on my spelling, writing, and reading skills. During school times, I employed the use of computer labs in learning lessons and in writing stories. I had quite vast experience with the use of the computer and I had gained knowledge on the use of computers in typing and navigation of most of the applications of the computer which include the use of Microsoft word, connect, paint and even an internet connection. My experience in computers was based on the fact my father is an individual who has a lot of interest in matters concerning technology and a computer was always within my reach when I was at home. Consequently, I grew up in an environment where technological advances were followed and this made me to learn about how to keep tract with the continuously increasing technological advances. It made me realize the ways in which technology can be interesting, fun, and helpful.

When I had attained the seventh period reading class, I started to read fiction novels on a daily basis. I used to take computerized accelerated reader tests on most of the books that I used to read and I used to base the points earned on the choice of the special incentives that I could take. The use of Accelerated reader tests played a very significant role in my reading ability because it always made me to focus, mostly on parts of the reading where the tests were to be tested. In ninth grade, it was a time when my social skills were becoming to widen up and I learnt about the MySpace. This took over as the primary form that I employed in most of the communication with my friends. This revolutionized my communication with my friends because the comments made could be visible to any person who could log into the page. My then newly developed interest in social networking made me to spend much of my time in MySpace since I was always writing comments on the pages on my friends whenever I had any free time. This brought some improvement in my literacy skills since it challenged me to stop the use of phrases and shortened words. The more I interacted with the social site improved several things about me because I leant the best ways through which I could create my profile to give a true reflection of the way I am. The other social media sites that I learnt to use include AOL Instant Messenger, which was the first social media site for me to learn about. This site played a significant role in my literacy skills because it led to an improvement in my communication skill, computer kills, and my general reading and writing skills. Through this site, I learnt some of the commonly used social site words such as “omg” and “lol” that I still use up to the present day in social media messaging. The AOL instant messenger soon became my primary messaging means and I soon started using email as a primary means through which I was using in communicating with my classmates, teachers, and parents. The use of emails greatly improved my literacy because most of the mails that I used to address to my teachers were formal emails and replaced the normal informal dialogues that I had earlier on been used to in communicating with classmates and friends.

It was in 2011 when I first got a Smartphone. The acquisition of the Smartphone brought so many changes in the ways that I could communicate. Initially, my phone was not interned accessible, but the Smartphone changed that state. The Smartphone is internet enabled and has several types of apps. My Smartphone functions for several roles, which include Facebook, Instagram, texting, and Twitter. Smartphone was such a new exposure to technology for me because in the learning of the several aspects of the phone, I gain quite a lot of things concerning technology. It also led to a great improvement in my literacy since to the present; I have the ability of typing using a full keyboard that has spell-check and auto correct functions. I could listen to the music of my choice and also searched for the quotes that had a connection with the things that I value about life.

After I had known much about the computer, my new area of concentration involved the exploration of the internet. The internet took much of my time because I learned ways of communicating with my friends who could be far away from home either studying or working. This involved social media such as Facebook and the use of Skype, the one form of communication that I always employ in communicating with my friends and family that are very far away from home, who normally takes long before we physically meet. All these came to be after I got my laptop when I was in high school and this improved my literacy skill because I could now type quickly, store most of my notes on my laptop, and improved my multitasking capabilities.

Generally, ever since I started to learn on literacy skills when I was 5 years old, there have been tremendous improvements in my literacy skills, which have been majorly influenced by the tremendous improvement in technology, which has revolutionized the ways in which people read, write, and also communicate in their day to day interactions.