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Erica, Kimberley, Kate, Adriana

What is literacy? Making meaning.  Includes the arts, digital, media, global, and from home/cultural/personal identities.

What are the implications for the classroom?  Transmediation is an excellent method to allow students to express meaning and respond to different texts in a way that allows them to constructively use their other discourses, and their community and home identities to communicate meaning.

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Erica, Casey, Michelle, Kyla

What are literacies? Way of expressing and a way of understanding.

- Body language
- Emotional expression
- Inquiry-based
- Visual literacy: analyzing, ads, marketing, commercials, videos, movies vs. visual art

Why do these understandings matter?
- Can't teach them if you don't understand them yourself
- Allows you to see the student's full potential and understanding
- Giving students the skills to use these literacies
- Some of us feel we missed out on the creative part of education growing up. Realized it is an important outlet for emotional expressions.

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Multiple Literacies is a way of making meaning. It could include body language, the way we speak, etc. Literacy means different things to different groups depending on their contexts. Different cultural groups have different ways of making meaning.

Transmediation: Movement of meaning from one sign system to another. It involved taking what you know in language and moving that knowledge to another system such as arts, music, etc. Transmediation can support student comprehension and help motivate them in a way. For examples the kid who may not feel comfortable writing a summary could sketch out his comprehension instead.

Critical literacy is about analyzing it, rather accepting. It  revolves around social justice themes such as dominance, access, diversity, etc.

Global literacy includes an overlapping of different concepts. Different groups make different meaning, so it involves students to analyze different issues from different perspectives.

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What counts as literacy today? Literacy goes far beyond text media. Literacy today includes forms of media such as music, drama, dance, television, commercials, visual art, and folklore. The transmediation aspect of literacy combines different viewpoints such as connecting cooking with food science or expressing our understanding of a text through music or movements. It's important to be aware that different cultures interpret literacies in different ways. Students need the freedom to express themselves using a wide variety of forms of literacies which helps students connect with what they are learning as well as each other.

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Oliver Silva, Émilie Vriend, Kasey Geelen, Antonio Sicoli

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Oliver Silva, Émilie Vriend, Kasey Geelen, Antonio Sicoli

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Literacies are the ability to interpret and communicate meaning in anything (a conversation, body language, digital media, music, written text, sculptures, paintings, comics, economics, global trade, etc.).

If we approach literacy from a broader sense, it will provide students with a more wholistic learning experience. The literacies the teacher chooses to include limit what the students are able to connect with or use as a means to express themselves and their interpretations of the world.

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What counts as literacy?
- Reading, Writing, Arts, Digital Literacy, Global/Cultural Literacy, Financial Literacy

Final Sentence:
It is unreasonable to think that someone can teach something they do not understand. Teachers must have a willingness to learn and continue learning about literacies.

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Elyse, Mackenzie & Melissa

-Reading

-Spoken

-Media

-Visual

-Cultural

-Social

-Technology

-Symbology

-*Everything*

Accept that communication comes from more than one form. Some students may feel more comfortable using their knowledge based on different forms of literature. Teachers should attempt all different kinds of literacies in the classroom.

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What are literacies?

Language, Arts, New literacies (digital)

Where you find meaning

Places/things where you can see yourself and others

Opinions can be challenged

Where other people can gain meaning from what you do

Meaning related to global perspectives

Literacies are never neutral

Create, interpret, understand across all contexts

Why does a literacy educators understanding of what is literacy matter?
Allows students to respond in their best voice.

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- art based strategies (drawings, sculptures, videos, music, dance)
- social practice rather than a commodity
- media literacy (ads, posters)
- reading everyday items (birthday cards, wrappers)
- communication through a variety of mediums

Understanding literacies allow teachers to reach students who derive meaning in different ways. If we do not teach all literacies then we are showing they lack importance in the classroom.

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Matthew Allen, Chloe Steward, Sally Hesse, Fanni Csaba

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Matthew Allen, Chloe Steward, Sally Hesse, Fanni Csaba

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What is literacy?
- a way to communicate - in whatever style or manner that conveys meaning
- critical literacy, digital literacy, health literacy, social, emotional literacy, financial literacy, numerical literacy, videos, etc.

Practical Implications:
- The classroom must include, incorporate, and accept different forms of literacy in the classroom.
- How can we as educators keep the skill of writing pen to paper alive and relevant?
- Including digital literacy activities since that skill will be critical and relevant in their lives.