The way the readings progressed throughout the semester with
each one building on the other, I was able to really absorb all these new
information and concepts that I hadn’t heard about before. It expanded my views
on literacy (or literacies after having written on multiliteracies) that I
didn’t really know or understand from having done linguistics. The most
interesting part has been learning about the heated debates on literacy
pedagogy (one of the words that I learned this semester!), debates that aren’t
cooling down any time soon. The class and group discussions we had on the
readings were very helpful in understanding how those theories and practices were
applied in the classroom. It also provided me with a different point of view in
which to analyze the readings. I constantly thought, “I would have never
thought about it that way”, during discussions; I very much liked that because
it pulled me out of that single point of view when it came to understanding
literacy
All these literacies: traditional, formal, functional,
multilingual, visual, digital, community! This class has amped my enthusiasm
for becoming a teacher and it made me realize there is so much more to learn,
so much more literacy to delve into, and that even after graduating the
learning process still doesn’t end. As a society we will continue to change in
the ways we know literacy; technology keeps advancing so rapidly that in a year
I won’t have the slightest clue how to use the latest social media. But that is the challenge we face today.
It really has been an amazing introduction to the L&L program!
