For this research essay, I selected the Literacy History Project. Specifically, the study of how African Americans have been historically affected by the practice of formal literacy in the United States, as well as how our states system continues to …
Joshua Wong
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The first activity I decided to do on this was the voter literacy test. I felt like it was extremely unintuitive and frustrating. Some of the questions seemed like a question a friend would give you to say “gotcha” like …
For many people, Identity is shaped by the way in which we grew up, the community we surround ourselves with, the people we meet, by our culture. Personally, I believe Identity extends more than just our ethnicity or where we …
The article “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans” provided information that I was not aware of that Middle eastern immigrants go through in this country. I think a lot of our information about these people and they are …
The 4-5th paragraph of the article stood out to me. In these paragraphs, Wong is illustrating how indigenous schools generally provide a curriculum and structure that are designed only to appeal and work with indigenous cultures and needs. The author …
1 . Some examples of new literacies are social media, computers, and the internet
2. All of the listed new literacies were around what I expected. I was not surprised.
3. I did not realize how much technology has affected …
Szwed lists a few elements of literacy which are text, context, motivation, participants, and function. Out of the elements, I found motivation to stand out among them. motivation is the thing that encourages an individual to pursue something and in …
“What is literacy?” based on my definition of the word, it would be the ability to read and comprehend what is read. Based on my research of the word literacy is defined mostly by the ability to read and write. …
