Talking about literacy in our first class, really got me thinking of what literacy honestly means, so I took it upon myself to use the dictionary (in case you wanted to look for yourselves) to find the proper term for what literacy means. There is nothing in the term that says anything about multimodal tools, i just simply says that literacy is the quality of being literate; especially to read and write. Even though the definition says the quality of being literate, it does not go into detail about the different ways in which an individual can be literate. Although, this may be true and what we have all pretty must been taught since we were in school, now a days literacy has a whole new meaning. To be literate just does not mean to be able to read and write, and do not get me wrong those are extremely IMPORTANT; in my opinion it is the ability to use media, voice, sounds, signs, etc. also known as multimodality (which I know is Professor Oldakowski's favorite term) and be able to include them in such places as the classroom. Honestly, before this class I just thought being literate meant being able to read and write, such as the definition says. I never in a million years thought it would include the use of multimodality and the integration we are seeing in classrooms these days. Literacy is of great importance when becoming a teacher and being able to learn and accept the new ways to be literate in todays world.
“Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!”- Jackson Pearce
Hi Casey :) First off, I love the quote. So cute. I agree with you in that, before this class, I had never thought of literacy being anything other than just being able to read and write. Like you, I thought that when that ability got added to other aspects of learning it was something else entirely. However, I now see that literacy involves and is almost required to include the ability of readers to be fluent in media outside of just basic writing. We do this in our every day lives anyway. We just don't realize that we are doing it. Now we just have a fancy term to refer to it by: multimodality.
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