Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Swedz Article Response

Throughout “The Ethnograpy of Literacy” article a lot of points were made that I found very intriguing.  Szwed stated that “Literacy would appear to be one of the few elements of education that everyone agrees to be a necessity of modernity.” I completely agree with this statement because without an adequate literate life, you are not allowing your knowledge to expand.  There are different forms of literacy done in different ways by different groups.  Also a variety of literacy forms exist such as social practice, scholarly, business related, and new media. There is not one correct answer to why people read and write because I believe that everyone has different motives.  What I do believe is that literacy plays an important role of how things get done in the world. It is necessary for me to learn new literacies given that I will be the one to teach students literacies that will appear during their lifetime. 

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