https://padlet.com/alexisthomas2/u02ebbkv978qvxyl Learning Assessment en-us 2021-08-31 14:37:29 UTC 2024-08-08 19:32:38 UTC hello@padlet.com alexisthomas2 https://padlet.com/alexisthomas2/u02ebbkv978qvxyl/wish/1716023275 A. Dwayne Lowery is a man of Eastern European ancestry. He was born in 1938 in a semi-rural area in the upper Midwest. He is the third of five children. His father was a rubber worker and his mother was a homemaker. His childhood home was filled with his father's union publications, left-leaning newspapers, and radio shows. After graduating he spent some time in the army. When he was out of the army, he worked in an automobile assembly line. When that job became too repetitive, he worked a day job reading water meters. Then in the 1970's he became active in the growing public employee unions which during that time he ended up applying for a union-sponsored grant which he received and spent four months in  Washington, D.C for training and union activity. After the four months, Lowery came back home and worked as a full time field representative for the union. 
B. During his life, Lowery had many literacy sponsors. First, was from his father. His father's union publication, left-leaning newspapers, and radio shows which exposed him at a young age to certain political climates. His day job reading water meters was also a sponsor because it was where he rediscovered newspapers which he read in the early mornings. He stated that during this time he started to get more interested in the things happening within his state and got more political. His work and travel in Washington, DC was also a literacy sponsor because there he had to read a lot, had an extensive amount of homework and written reports to do. His job as a field representative was the last literacy sponsor because it led him to change his writing practices, helped him to improve his communication skills. 
C. This exposure to various literacy sponsors affected Lowery in many ways. His father's newspaper, publications, and radio shows grounded Lowery in having a certain drive in advocacy for certain social and political issues. His day job reading water meters helped him to rediscover newspapers which the reading made him become more political. The union Lowery worked for made him and others involved learn new skills because of the change in the skills an education needed for the job. For example, Lowery had to do workshops for two to three days to learn new legislation and improve his communication skills. It also changed his writing practices  because of all of the briefs and transcripts he had to write. It also made him a more critical thinker and develop problem-solving skills.
D. Lowery's story represents the dynamic relationship between the demands for job skills and the changing literacy standards because when Lowery started working as a field representative he realized that the literacy he had previous to the job wasn't advanced enough for it. Especially, when he started dealing with attorneys and college-educated co-workers there was somewhat of a noticeable decrease in his skills. When the municipal and country governments started hiring these attorneys, it changed the writing practices in the union. As stated in the story his job had him complete workshops in order to develop the new skills needed for the job. 
E. The concept process-bound is played in Lowery's story. Writing is always changing and in the story you can see it as well.  The writing practices changed when the union started to have to interact with well- educated individuals. The union he worked for had to change their writing practices. The union had their employees take union-sponsored workshops in order to to learn arbitration, new legislation, and communication skills. 
G. Some implications of Brandt's literacy sponsors for our education as college students right now would have to be the people and things we interact with in our school, on campus, or off campus. For example our teachers, the new people we meet from all around the world on campus, social events, organizations and the different attractions around us. It could be our specific college for our majors. Especially, when being in a new setting because most of us are from different states, countries, and have been virtual for over two years because of the pandemic we all will have some type of new literacy sponsor. Not to say for all it will be an easy thing because some may have to actively look for it in some way. ]]> 2021-09-03 20:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alexisthomas2/u02ebbkv978qvxyl/wish/1716023275