So here's the deal... ![]()
I am working on my Wiki project for my Methods class. I am picking my short story for the project and I am trying to decide if Virginia Woolf is too much for high school students... (I forgot how much I love V! It's been awhile) I think I am going to use it because I am already envisioning my lesson plan and my activities and I think that I can make this accessible for high school readers. I am also trying to redefine my definition of what literacy is... because for so long I have thought literacy and being literate were the same thing. I don't think that they are though... I think that literacy is accessibility of information. It is a set of tools that allows you to access and re-access information. It is being able to manipulate those tools in a way that you are able to get "at" or get to the information being presented... Reading is a great way of looking at literacy but it presents itself in ways that we don't always think about- like technology. Understanding the tools of the internet, or excel, of wiki's, of blogs, of facebook, of email, of all these tools that we have that we are using to make like easier and more accessible... it is like this... i can be literate in one area of technology, understanding the lingo, understanding how to manipulate the tools, so that I can access and often republish information. being literate in one area doesn't mean that I am literate in another area.... although because of the cross over in lingo and formatting and setups I might be at an advantage in learning and in becoming literate. i don't know these are the thoughts that are running through my brain the loose ends that I need to throw in a drawer in order to write... I feel like right now all my thoughts are just loose ends that I don't know how to do anything with... yet. but I am sure that this will become more and more clear as I work through this project but for now I need to have these loose ends out of my brain and tucked into this drawer so that I can write. I am so glad I relearned how to write, relearned what works for me :)
