What is Literacy?

How my ideas of literacy are evolving this semester. Jennifer Rodin

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What is Literacy? by Mind Map: What is Literacy?

1. social (Hamilton)

1.1. study it with Ethnography (Street, Brice Heath)

2. situated/embedded (Gee)

3. out of school

4. oral

5. reading

5.1. text

5.2. screens

5.3. media

5.4. the world

5.5. art

5.6. mathematics

5.7. music

6. technology

6.1. games

7. access and equity concerns

8. cultural

9. historical

10. funds of knowledge (Moll)

11. meaning-making

11.1. ideology

12. in school

13. the "new literacies" (vanLeeuwen, Serafini, Leu...)

13.1. how students are learning to do online research

13.2. researching how children learn online through ORCA study and others

14. writing

15. the myth (Graff)

16. the internet

17. teaching

17.1. students how to navigate it

17.2. teachers how to teach it

18. in my classroom