Miss One Day…Miss Everything!

If you missed a day you missed way too much stuff. Each article group that presented brought a new and different aspect to the study of literacy and why it is important. Here is some of the things I took away from the week of presentations.

1. Adolescent Literacy: One thing i took away was that adolescents are exposed to more forms of media than we may probably realize, and because of that they are often thinking critically of themselves. The group gave us a quiz that I think helped the rest of the group get back into the mindset of an adolescent. If we can better understand the mindset of an adolescent then we can be better prepared to teach them and know what kinds of literacy would be best for them.
2. Hip Hop Literacy: This was interesting. The group was able to show not only how hip hop lyrics are a fluid form of poetry, but how it can be used in a classroom setting in a very open and freeform way of learning. Hip hop is a popular genre of music and any when used in any way hip hop can be universal. The group gave us the assignment to create a rap.  A rap about video games may not be considered universal but it was entertaining and got the group into how the two forms of literacy can be intermixed.
3. Make/Hack/Play: This group reminded me of the gaming group, because when we created the objects it felt more like playing a game. It is also interesting to see how the hack portion of the group worked, and to see how things were hacked to create its own form of literacy. How making, hacking, and playing are all interconnected depending on how we choose to see it.