"Sponsors of Literacy" English 104 TTh *PLEASE REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR POST FOR YOUR POINTS!!! by Sarah Ben-Zvi https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh Let's dig in! en-us 2021-08-20 16:00:17 UTC 2025-12-03 10:39:15 UTC hello@padlet.com sdb71 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1688142619 2021-08-20 16:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1688142619 passage that grabbed me -Jesohaia Carrillo https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707524804 "This analysis of sponsorship forces us to consider not merely how one social group's literacy practices may differ from another's, but how every­body's literacy practices are operating in differential economies,"]]> 2021-08-31 16:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707524804 passage that grabbed me- Taryn Nakagawa https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707527428 The competition to
harness literacy, to manage, measure, teach, and exploit it, has intensified
throughout the century. It is vital to pay attention to this development because it largely sets the terms for individuals' encounters with literacy.
This competition shapes the incentives and barriers (including uneven distributions of opportunity) that greet literacy learners in any particular
time and place. It is this competition that has made access to the right
kinds of literacy sponsors so crucial for political and economic well being.]]> 2021-08-31 16:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707527428 heg17 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707530391 "... literacy sponsors affect literacy learning in two power­ful ways. They help to organize and administer stratified systems of oppor­tunity and access, and they raise the literacy stakes in struggles for competitive advantage. Sponsors enable and hinder literacy activity, often forcing the formation of new literacy requirements while decertifying older ones." (pg. 178-179)]]> 2021-08-31 16:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707530391 "Sponsors, as we ordinarily think of them, are powerful figures who bank­roll events or smooth the way forinitiates. Usually richer, more knowl­edgeable, and more entrenched than the sponsored, sponsors nevertheless enter a reciprocal relationship with those they underwrite."- Ashley Bowers https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707530581 2021-08-31 16:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707530581 Evan https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707532649 She has a PhD, and focuses on literacy learning, mass literacy, so she focuses on kind of the social aspect of literacy]]> 2021-08-31 16:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707532649 DB (sarah Downing) sd267 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707537565 It's important to know who the author of any writing is, because that affects the content. As we learned earlier in the week, those who write tend to be those who were successful, so it's important to take into context where the author came from and what advantages they had.]]> 2021-08-31 16:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707537565 Quote https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707542710 "Literacy like land is valued, commodity in this economy , a key resource in gaining profit and edge."]]> 2021-08-31 16:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707542710 Quote that grabbed my attention cl329 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707543863 " Literacy looms as one of the great engines of profit and competitive advantage in the 20th century: a lubricant for consumer desire; a means for integrating corporate markets; a foundation for the deployment of weapons and other technology; a raw material in the mass production of information." (paragraph 3)

]]> 2021-08-31 16:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707543863 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707543910 “Sponsors, as we ordinarily think of them, are powerful figures who bankroll events or smooth the way for initiates.”
So sponsors help individual learners by representing them. They provide money and other resources and will usually get more money in return. 

Brianna Brown ]]> 2021-08-31 16:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707543910 Sponsorship Definition dpv8 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707545608 Sponsorship can be defined as any agent (local or distant), concrete or abstract, that enables and supports as well as regulates and suppresses literacy to gain an advantage. In other words it can be someone or something spinning a biased narrative for personal gain or personal belief. 

-Dechen Vassallo ]]> 2021-08-31 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707545608 Madigan Stites https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707545668 Brandt states that all literacy learning requires permission, or assistance, and that's what literacy sponsors are. Sponsors can either support and teach literacy, as well as suppress and withhold it.]]> 2021-08-31 16:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707545668 lc2581 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707549184 An example of a literary sponsor in the article by Deborah Brand is when she shares the story of Raymond Branch on page 170. He became a successful freelance writer of software because at twelve years old he was gifted a computer from his parents at Christmas. Raymond gained this literacy from the sponsorship from his parents. ]]> 2021-08-31 16:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707549184 Who is DB? (Cheyanne Holliday) https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707549354 Deborah Brandt has a higher education and has dedicated a lot of time to literacy as seen through multiple awards. She has taken a societal aspect to studying literacy and people's relationship with improving their own understanding. Being aware of an authors background is important because their history affects their point of view. Knowing about their life can help add context.]]> 2021-08-31 16:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707549354 A Guiding Hand cl329 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707552066 Brandt states, "This essay does not presume to overcome the analytical failure completely. But it does offer a conceptual approach that begins to connect literacy as an individual development to literacy as an economic development, at least as the two have played out over the last ninety years or so." (paragraph 5) She is guiding the reader away from this being an opinion piece. ]]> 2021-08-31 16:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707552066 https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553028 Caleb Williamson:  
One quote that got my attention was, "Through the sponsorship of Baptist and Methodist ministries, African Americans in slavery taught each other to understand the Bible in subversively liberatory ways"(168). This quote is saying what great affect the sponsorships had on the Baptist Methodist ministries. The sponsors allowed the people in slavery to understand the bible, which is a very important thing. This shows just how impactful these sponsorships can be and how they can really change lives. 

]]> 2021-08-31 16:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553028 Cadence https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553117 "Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy — and gain advantage by it in some way."


]]> 2021-08-31 16:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553117 Aimee Alvarado https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553209 Deborah Brandt was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She wrote numerous articles and books for her focus of social contexts of mass literacy and literacy learning. This does matter because it allows the audience to have more faith in the author they are learning from. ]]> 2021-08-31 16:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707553209 Sponsors of literacy is:" a conceptual approach that begins to connect literacy as an individual development to literacy as an economic development at least as the two have played out over the last ninety years or so." Sponsors from DB's approach are "agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress or withhold literacy--and gain advantage by it in some way." This is an interesting approach, one I had never really considered, but of course it is true. The printing example is a good one--how the Industrial Revolution separated printers became low paid workers without access to the intellectual environment they had once been part of. https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707555699 2021-08-31 16:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sdb71/xov7k0ksm27s1guh/wish/1707555699