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Sara Dweck(updated literacy definition) 

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Sara Dweck(updated literacy definition) 

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I think that at the beginning of the semester I believed that teaching literacy was something more concrete, that flows from teacher to student. However, I now understand that it's a far more fluid subject. This is a subject that student agency in class really matters. Literacy is like a part of a person's identity, because it's the basis for our communication and understanding of ourself and the world.

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Literacy is the ability to recognize and decode language in a way which allows you to communicate and receive information, make critical assumptions and discover new ideas from a stagnant text.  I also believe that true literacy involves flexibility and the desire to develop perpetually.
Literacy also exists in many forms and students require multiple approaches to engage their various literacies.  Students need to engage with audio, visual and digital literacies as well, and denying students these resources only furthers educational divides brought on by privilege and social imbalance.

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Literacy is the ability to use highly-developed critical thinking skills to communicate, interpret, engage with, contribute to, discern, assist, and understand the world around oneself, regardless of language or background. Its goal, in my opinion, is to help one understand one’s true identity and evaluate one’s place in the world. It need not involve reading or writing, depending on the context. Literacy in the classroom should be a microcosm of literacy in the global sense.

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Literacy is the ability to use highly-developed critical thinking skills to communicate, interpret, engage with, contribute to, discern, assist, and understand the world around oneself, regardless of language or background. Its goal, in my opinion, is to help one understand one’s true identity and evaluate one’s place in the world. It need not involve reading or writing, depending on the context. Literacy in the classroom should be a microcosm of literacy in the global sense. Examples include racial literacy and critical literacy pedagogy.

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I believe literacy to be a way to communicate problems, ideas and beliefs, and a way to converse with peers and share differing perspectives on texts and worldly issues. It’s important to look beyond what is being said in a work and to further evaluate how a work interacts with your own beliefs, ideals and background.

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Literacy is adaptability. It is an ongoing development of skills that include more than reading and writing. It also includes the way individuals react to their environment that influences their trains of thoughts while talking to others or thinking to oneself. There is no set definition of what "literate" is, in my opinion. Even in the English language, we have learned that there is so much more than "academic" or "standard" or "mainstream" English. Literacy can't be set

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Literacy: Fluency in any given method for understanding the world, a way by which one might acquire a more intimate understanding of their environment or themselves.

My new understanding of literacy is more developed than it was initially. I now feel that, in addition to literacy acting as a method for understanding the world, it also works to  shape  our world. When we make use of or identify a given type of literacy, we take part in making our environment what it is.

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Literacy is not limited to reading and writing words. Literacy can be a way of making connections between the reader and the text or the ability to challenge why it is that a reader does not connect. Meaning and deeper understanding of the social or historical context can be gathered with a critical lens.
-multiple literacies

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Literacy is being able to comprehend the texts that surround us within society and questioning that form of thinking in order to generate our own ideas.
Students should be able to take the skills acquired within the classroom and use them towards making connections to their own personal experiences.

Literacy goes beyond skills acquired in the classroom and involves socio economic factors that students are affected by.

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Literacy is the ability to convey a complex thought or idea through any mode of representation. It also means to be able to receive information from others through different modes of communication, while simultaneously establishing ownership over new information. Being literate means to understand how these ideas, expressions, and thoughts work within the context of our world.

- Literary is a community process.
- some literacies have more capital than others depending on the setting.

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Literacy describes the ease with which we navigate language in specific situations. Beyond just being able to read and write, literacy also refers to the ability to engage critically with a text. Our levels of literacy change depending on the situation.

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Literacy is an ongoing process of learning about the way that an individual interacts and communicates with the world around them. The art of 'literacy' is also something that is inevitably a political act (it encourages us to communicate our thoughts about the world). Beyond reading and writing, literacy describes how we speak and express ourselves in other forms (technology, art, etc.). In the classroom, I want my definition of literacy to provide students with as many perspectives as possible in a way that allows them to continuously expand on their own literacy/ view traditional texts in contemporary ways.

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Literacy is in a way being aware of meaningful patterns in various contexts so that we can understand and avoid unintentional or unconscious projections, biases, and generalizations in our theories and assumptions.  It is being or attempting to be in tune with the general mass consciousness, being aware of the shared experiences and realities of other human beings.

I am unsure if my definition has become more or less focused. I feel as though to just have literature relate to words would be to undermine the true meaning of what it means to be literate but it is also hard to explain the broader meaning behind it. You could say critical thinking but what is that. To me I think it all comes back to intuition, teaching students to judge things for themselves and trust themselves and to be aware of what could be creating a bias in them.

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Literacy is being able to read and comprehend literature, if defining it simply. However, there is so much that goes into it that creates a more complicated definition. Literacy is communication: being able to express ideas and being able to understand ideas from other people. Literacy is being able to discern whether or not the information you are reading is coming from a trustworthy source, and it is about the give and take of information from other people and points of view.

I now see that literacy is more than just understanding the words but the context and the way that words influence how we see the world and how the world can be articulated through text.

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The way I view literacy is one's ability to engage critically with diverse media. In other words, having a complex understanding of surface-level messaging, cultural value, and sociopolitical implications of works of literature, art, political propaganda, etc.

The goal of teaching literacy, then, should be to teach students to be active thinkers about the world itself and how messages are disseminated in the spaces they occupy.

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Literacy is being not only able to read a text, but to interpret it and analyze it from the author's perspective and different perspectives.

Being able to understand the different literacies that we come with, and different uses of language and why we use them.

The many ways we are fluent in different knowledges

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Definition of Literacy: A fluent level of knowledge, comprehension, and/or skill in any given field/subject - it also allows you to connect and communicate with the world and others around you

Literacy is the ability to communicate an idea in a certain mode. It is the ability to express a message effectively and may be communicated in a number of ways.

Literacy is ongoing - it not something you can just learn once and have - it is a way of interacting and connecting and therefore is ever-changing and adaptable

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To me, literacy means engaging my students with and against the text. By engaging my students with the text, we discuss what works, what the author is trying to say, and the literacy devices that are employed. When we engage against the text, we examine the historical context of the work, discuss how certain minorities and women are portrayed, and if certain aspects of the writing aren't working (if the characters are flat). Literacy involves a lot of critical thinking from my students, and as an English teacher, I intend to teach them key critical thinking skills.

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Literacy means being able to read, write, comprehend, and communicate--but it is not boxed into these skills. Literacy, along with the above skills, means being able to engage with the world and society around you and apply your knowledge to how you come to understand topics--and later, how you make assertions about these topics. No matter what language you speak, no matter what narrative you see, it IS literacy.

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Sara Dweck-            Literacy, in my definition, is being able to communicate and receive information effectively. This could mean digitally, understanding how to navigate the internet in terms of reliable sources. It could also mean understanding how to use the internet to communicate a message. Art and popular culture can be a form of literacy for understanding aspects of society. Critical literacy also means looking at canonized texts and unpacking the implicit ideologies by asking questions that go against the text. 

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Sara Dweck-            Literacy, in my definition, is being able to communicate and receive information effectively. This could mean digitally, understanding how to navigate the internet in terms of reliable sources. It could also mean understanding how to use the internet to communicate a message. Art and popular culture can be a form of literacy for understanding aspects of society. Critical literacy also means looking at canonized texts and unpacking the implicit ideologies by asking questions that go against the text. 

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- "awakened"
- caring about racial injustice and making sure you use relevant texts
- Incorporating current events, media, movements like BLM and election cycle
- Caring about social justice and reversing unfair norms and standards
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Challenge yourself to think outside of the box and consider different perspectives.

Flexibility and adaptation are key during these times.

Use active listening as much as possible before you speak.

Cameras on as much as possible.

It is okay to get up and stretch - even if your camera is on!

Be patient and considerate of the new reality that is digital learning (connections, accidental muting, etc.)

Wait time is awkward silence, but that is okay!'

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Peeves: -Lack of preparedness for class,
-Lack of side conversations with peers,
-Unreliable wifi

Trait: introverted-ness,
creativity, socializer, listening

Norm: -Have a longer wait time to include everybody in the conversation
-Utilize the chat more for side conversation
-Challenge yourself to think outside the box
-Patience for technical issues
-Try to listen to others before you speak

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Peeves: Unforeseen tech issues,
participation- when to jump in
breaks during zoom meetings
Uncertainty with meetings/scheduling
Traits: patience, creativity, work ethic, thorough
Norms: learning to be flexible and adapt to changes, being able to turn changes into learning moments

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Peeves:
- Professors thinking students have more time to do more work now that classes are online.
- Trouble focusing/ easily distracted.
- Too much screen time

Norms:
- Professors being understanding of students' outside lives and struggles.
- Professors need to be more interactive in order to keep students engaged while not in the classroom.
- Splitting class between zoom and assignments on students' own time.

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Peeves:
--Working on patience: there is more of a lag that isn't there with in-person discussions.
--Technical Difficulties
--No distinction between home/work environment
- No distinction between home and work environment. No rituals of commuting to class, etc.
-Social people do not have the ability to socialize in the same physical ways, which can take away from the bigger picture of being a student.

Traits:
Maha: I like moving around.
Rachel: I love being social (which makes remote school a nightmare)
Avery: I love getting to know people's individuality and expressions during class, whereas over zoom it becomes more uniform.

Turning Peeves and Traits into norms:
-Normalize getting up and stretching, even if cameras are on
-Normalize Eugene's neck stretcher
-Be patient but also conscious of the trials and tribulations of digital learning