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LABELING AND DEFINING LITERACY IN 2018 Why do you think some see literacy as singular and others as plural? Last week's Lankshear reading cites Gee as "literacies are bound up in social, institutional, and cultural relationships, and can only be understood when they are situated in their social, cultural, and historical contexts." (12) As an educational policy maker charged with creating consistent and readily quantifiable data, a preference for a singular literacy would naturally create only the types of assessments based on expediency and economic viability. Perhaps singular literacy provides an illusion of control when so many new texts are simply flooding the traditional educational space.  Cling to what they know.  Why would they not when data like this from Coiro's Colombia talk affirms the initial lack of correlation between the offline/ online texts.  Now throw the compounding multiplicity of Hartman's six interacting elements into the mix.

Screencastify~ Profile Video Sherry Turkle~ CV from MIT                                                   Connected, but Alone 2012 TED Talk Talks at Google: Reclaiming the Conversation                                             Work Cited Dretzin, R. (Producer), & Rushkoff, D., & Dretzin, R. (Writers). (2010).  Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier [Video file]. PBS. Retrieved October 10, 2018, from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ Turkle, S. (n.d.).  Connected, but Alone . Speech presented at TED 2012 in California, Long Beach. Retrieved October 10, 2018, from https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together Turkle, S. (2015, September 26). Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.  The New York Times . Retrieved October 10, 2018, from https://nyti.ms/1VhHsVN

Cool Tool~  Read&Write for Google Chrome Critical Review: General Description: Read&Write for Google Chrome  is an app available in the Chrome store.  There are many solid features to this app to assist in fluency and vocabulary acquisition to ride along a text while reading a text on the Chrome Browser.  Text augmentation via definitions, illustrations, narrations, and text highlights are some of the helpful features. Tool Features:  This particular feature of R&W is the Collect Highlight.  The reader is able to highlight text in 4 different colors (yellow, green. blue, and pink) and export the text into a new Google doc.  With the proper framing of target words during a reading of a text, word patterns and author strategy and style can emerge easier through this tool. Affordances: Cited by Castek, the study of Fadel and Lemke observes that, "there is support for the direct manipulation of materials, especially when the learning is complex."  By