READING REFLECTION #2
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 e...
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