I appreciate this educational journal, but I don’t think I can hear the word “discourse” for a few days without wincing a bit. Yes, this might be a bit of a critique. Although, I truly did appreciate the difference in perspective and learning something new, I do not think I ever expected to get tired of a particular word in a reading before. My writer’s brain understands that this does not make for sensible reading and the other parts of my brain kept having to remind myself that this is an educational journal, that the whole point of it is to articulate research, which is pointed and necessary (Thanks, Elizabeth) .
Now that I’ve gotten that out the way, once I calmed my writer’s brain down, I was able to receive and understand what this journal was about, somewhat. It seemed to be aboutfinding your second identity or craft(s), otherwise known as your secondary discourse,letting it consume you, for mastery is the goal, so you may teach it appropriately. Considering your formal and individual learnings (known as primary discourse) that shaped you until a certain point but using what you have decided to master in whole instead.
My interpretation of this journal made me ponder on the use of AI in schools or in moments where using the brain is needed, similar to “mushfaking”. Gee, J. P. speaks heavily on the fact that your Discourse will be tested in diverse ways by those within the Discourse to gauge whether you belong and are native to the society you are encroaching. If this blog post was made using AI and you asked me about it, I likely wouldn’t remember anything about it. Test me out and see. You can probably tell where I lean on the technology in the education divide. Although I understand the usage of technology nowadays, I don’t find it useful full-time, or even half the time. In this way, I think teaching has become political as new technology develops to help students but I’m not sure all teachers are convinced that literacy at its most basic definition is being mastered with its use. It seems that studentsare far more likely to pick up an iPad than a book and I think that may be literacy enthusiasts’ first big hurdle.
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