Literacy is the ability to read and write and to be able to comprehend what you read. In college your literacy helps you with every aspect in school. From writing a research paper for english to studying for my race and ethnicity test, I use my literacy skills often. In fact I am using them right now, while writing this blog post. I believe that for effective learning, english classrooms should venture away from traditional genres of writing and reading. All though out high school we would read traditional writing's, for example Shakespeare's work. After we read his novels, we would then write papers about the stories. In my english classes in college we ventured away from "traditional writing." We used crot writing style, which is extremely different from your typical paper. The research paper we completed in college was completely different to what I was used to writing in high school. In both english courses I completed in college, we used online interaction. For ENC 1102 we complete these blog posts and for ENC 1101 we actually had a Facebook group, where my classmates and I would discuss and analyze our readings. College courses seem to rear away from traditional literacy styles. I believe that this is a lot more effective, especially in this generation. We as students are so used to technology and the internet, so why not incorporate that into the way we learn? I believe the use of technology and internet keeps us interested and therefore is a lot more effective. However after reading the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", I had to agree with a lot of the things mentioned in it. For example when Bowman said that it was a lot more difficult to read long passages and books simply because we are now used to direct answers from our friendly website Google. I'll admit it, I look up absolutely anything and everything on Google. I would even say that it is a hobby for some people now in days. I believe that english classrooms should "experiment" with other sources of literacy (like blog posts) but however should not entirely get rid of traditional reading and writing with pen and paper.
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I agree that we use literacy in every aspect of our life. From writing a paper to studying for a science test. We may not even realize when we are using our literacy abilities because we use them so often. With our evolving technology based world I also agree that it is important for society to learn to be literate with technology and different forms of compositiotn. Our buisness world is becoming more and more computer based and it a necessity to know how to use technology. I do think though that it shouldn't necessarily be incorporated into our traditional english classes though, because old fashion reading and writing still needs to be perfected by everyone.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree you know. I think we all know how much we need to be literate in writing a 10 page research paper. ANd i like how you talk about how the crot paper is a totally different style than anything we were probably use to. And even though Google is extremely efficient, we are losing our attention spans - especially when we're trying to skim 500 page books or 10 page articles.
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