- The Black community has faced several road blocks that prevents equal access to literacy. Segregation is one example of this. “The Library Card” is a story about a young boy’s perseverance to access education despite racial roadblocks.
- Literacy is only
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- The main identity I identify with is my trans identity. There are a lot of pros and cons to being trans, but I love that I get to have a dual experience living as someone others perceive as female and
A recurring theme seems to be overgeneralization of communities based on the color of their skin. “Middle Eastern immigrant communities are often lumped together by US politicians and the general public as ‘Arabs’. Persians and even non-Middle East groups like …
Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund addressed the issues in school policies that negatively affect Native Americans’ educational outcomes. These policies focused on anglocentric norms instead of embracing cultural diversity of education. Native American …
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- Most examples of new literacies involve some knowledge of technology. I imagine new literacies are constantly emerging as our society and culture shifts and changes.
- Most of the examples were fairly obvious (like video making, social networking, and podcasting.
6 word memoir: Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.
- Literacy is the ability to communicate and interact with other people and the world around us.
- Literacy seems to be a broader concept with a lot of different subsections. There’s alphabetical
5. According to E. Baker, sociocultural perspective marries literacy with culture as the concept of literacy shifts around different cultures. She suggests we use 4 characteristics of literacy to define it. Literacy is semiotic (uses symbols and signs like …
I'm not sure if there's a word limit or if something's wrong with my computer, but I'm posting DB post 2 in two sections.
