New literacies

The basic definition of literacy is the ability to read and write. It is the fundamental characteristic of education. In other word, literacy is the ability to understand logically, think critically and solve problem. We use literacy to pass on the idea from generation to generation. The goal of literacy is to become more educational. Education as a whole helps us to understand and develop the ideas of our own. Whenever we talk about literacy we think of the educational level one have received.…

Literacy is so very important for every human being, I think that goes without saying in this modern age. We tend to take for granted that everyone knows to wash your hands after going to the bathroom, or before eating. However the reality is that there are many people who have had less opportunity or have less ability to improve their literacy. I am astounded that we still have people who cannot read, but we need to be aware of this fact. Relatively few Americans are considered proficient…

The significance of writing in life It was a dull gray morning with the sky filled with dark, crimson and amber-tinted clouds. I stepped down from my school bus and slowly walked towards my school with my friends clinging to each other and expressing our anxiety as today we will receive our half-yearly exam papers that we just did last week. I walked down the hallway with apprehension flowing down my throat. I went to my classroom and sat down with my friends. My classroom teacher also my…

I take pride of every experience I have been through, because I believe that even the bad ones shake our core and awaken something new. I am always on a mission to challenge stereotypes, but I guess in the case of “book love” I am defeated. As a young girl, my parents paved the way for me to experience life through my senses. And so, I was constantly encouraged to open up and learn from our travels, life incidents, challenges and just about anything we went through as a family. My father…

and assessed, in the course.” (Marshall University Course Policy). Every student at Marshall University is required to take a first-year seminar (FYS) class. In this class, the course objectives are to encourage inquiry based thinking, information literacy, integrative thinking, intercultural thinking, and metacognitive thinking in students. Other universities such as Brown, an Ivy League school founded in 1764, and the University of Illinois believe all courses and course syllabi should reflect…

everything. He says he " read with desperation" meaning he had a drive and passion to read. He loved to gain knowledge and understand things that he never understood before. He felt that reading books could save his life because he unlocked a whole new world by being able to connect with the rest of society by reading. I feel that I can relate to him when making that statement. My family taught me to read with desperation and have a passion for it. I developed a passion for reading and writing…

Which appears in Clive Thompson , “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy.” in a statement from Professor Andrea Lunsford states , "I think we 're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven 't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn 't killing our ability to write. It 's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions. The reasoning behind that is because many american never wrote anything outside of…

At first when I was told we had to create this literacy portfolio. It really didn’t make sense to why I had to pull a student who was below grade level out of class to complete this assignment. Once I read APS 7 and saw how I could use the portfolio to help me help my students, it started to make sense. I would like to have a literacy portfolio for all of my students when I get my own classroom. This would be something I start at the beginning of the year. I could see who needs the most help and…

that do not require qualifications, such as those in service sectors, many instructions or tasks come in the written form and there would be many occasions where the worker have to write in order to carry out requested tasks. This is supported by a news article from a South Korean station, which illustrates that 20 years ago the proportion of people who were illiterate among those having low-paid labor jobs was about 35 percent, whereas this year they constituted only about 8 percent. This…

continuously search for new and better ways to immerse students in the learning process. Recently, the topic of adolescent literacy has taken center stage, due to new studies and research. Adolescent literacy is not just about being able to decode words—in fact, it rarely is. The research regarding the topic is both inspiring and discouraging in different locations, at different levels, and within different subjects. How can anyone know what adolescents need in terms of literacy? The truth is,…