What I found most interesting from this week's readings was the explanation of multiple literacies. This article could really change the way you think about literacy. It makes sense to me now to say that different cultural groups have different ways of making meaning. Therefore, different cultural groups teach literacy in different ways to their children. Literacy has come to mean different things to different groups of people. So, my student's parents may define literacy totally different from how I now define literacy. After all, I use to think of literacy as simply being able to read and write.
I agree. The most interesting thing for me was the acknowledgement of different cultures having different literacies. We all know different people interpret things differently but I feel that sometimes we are told or encouraged for a better word to all have them same understanding but that should not be the case at all (at least in my opinion).
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