Today's students live in the information age. They are bombarded with vast amounts of information in a variety of forms and must become critical consumers and users of information in order to be successful in school and beyond. Critical literacy allows students to be active and challenging participants as they respond to various types of texts. It provides students with a lens through which to look critically at written, visual, spoken, multimedia, and performance texts, to challenge the intent and content, and to get the most enjoyment and deepest meaning out of text.
In relation to classroom practice, students' learning experiences must help them to assume a critical stance when responding to or creating texts. They need to discover how texts are constructed and how they work. Students need to understand what texts are attempting to do and they need to move toward taking an active, meaning-making position with regard to texts.
So says the CLC Webcasts page on critical literacy.
• Watch, and provide a summary of, any one segment of the webcast on critical literacy.
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• Watch and provide a summary of Allan Luke's presentation (under 'Additional Features').
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• Read and provide a brief summary of the learning sequence here.
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summary of Allan Luke's presentation (Griffith University Australia)
ReplyDeleteTo know clearly about critical literacy is to know what isn't critical literacy such as lesson, method
teaching.
To teach critical literacy effectively, we need 'social balanced program'. To have social balance, expectation that Social practice and challenge relationships between languages and social practical groups.
Provide social justice, equalable, accessible are the key.
And text in contexts is not separate with social contacts and practices around them. Always students meet the contacts. Therefore analyzing, values, relations are important, cause critical literacy is understanding our true language and constructing, reconstructing. So we need co-business to creative thinking, acting, and in fact to access to literacy. ****Intellectuality rigorous discussion about texts for high expectation for all students. *** Depends on skills and processes and strategies, contexts becomes variety of text contacts, multiple communication. It can build 'textualization of society.'**** Today's child need cooperation and ' how text work ' They are engage and exposed the text eve before, visualization, advertisements, magazines and games everyday. Written important to promote critical literacy. These days, westerners like European north and american critical literacy classroom tend to teach the students poetical landscape to improve and encourage students critical thinking. Finally the students can put their critical thinking belive how the critical literacy works in the to real world *** To explain briefly to critical literacy is how allows students to be active and challenging participants as they respond to various types of texts. with a lens through which to look critically at written, visual, spoken, multimedia, and performance texts.
Professors are providing real classroom to see life children engage all the process in the video. Through whole process they talk about critical literacy.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the critical literacies?
Critial literacies develop in an environment of class where students feel safe, participate fully, express opinions, consider alternative views, question and dig for deep meaning.
It's important every member of class has a voice and each student feels confident, respected and included.
Critical literacies develop when students consider multiple perspectives and think independently. Most important norm is that the respect for one another. When we look around their classroom we can see the evidence of respect for the environment and for each others as learners. Also daily schedule has literacy block have ninety to hundred minute dedicate literacy doing.
Develop critical literacies require deep thinking and questioning. Having literacy block allows block time to necessary genuine engagement. Students need time slow down consolidate. Students learn to take a critical stand in all they do. This is not a strategy to be apply need it rather it's constantly which students view of the world. It is not necessary to find fault. To taking a critical about thinks clearly in order to be able to make a decision independently.
A brief summary of the learning sequence:
ReplyDeleteLearning is a step by step process; like a basic Term/Research paper. You can not have the final result of the said paper, without passing the first, the second, the third, and the fourth step. Where in you are about to first, State the problem.Second, you gather/collect data. Third, study the data. Fourth, test the hypothesis(ses). Fifth, review the related literature. Sixth, give the summary/conclusion and the importance of the study. Same as the child's growth and development, it follows a pattern or order.
It is the same thing in learning a language process. You can not speak the language fluently/correctly without studying first the basic such as phonology(sound rules), morphology(word formation rules), syntax(sentence formation rules/ and semantics(meaning rules)and of course skill integration is a big matter here. You can not have a first hand writing output without passing all of these things.
Summary of Allan Luke's presentation
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to understand the differences between what the author said and what the author's meant.
as we know, we live in the information age. So we need to have a critical literacy even the students are young. Mostly 3-7 children can't have a critical thinking but there's no meaning that they can't learn. Are we gonna teach this just for high school students? No~ Students read variety of text and watching lot of commercials.
They just accept this. We've been teaching like Who wrote this text? What are purpose of these? What is trying to do to me? We need to teach one more "What is missing from this text?" we need to look behind of the text. And we can start with this practice anything around us from our home, community traffic tickets, newspapers.
Try this~
CRITICAL LITERACY is defined in different ways in different contexts. In this initiative, critical literacy is broadly defined as an educational practice that focuses on the relationship between languages and worldviews, social practices, power, knowledge, identity, citizenship, inter-cultural relations and global/local issues. -- http://www.criticalliteracy.org.uk/whatiscl.html#table
ReplyDeleteIn the critical literacy, all types of texts can be used, which are from Newspapers, On-line communities, and video sharing sites such as You Tube, and Blog, etc. Here, students can learn these resources of information that reflect what is happening in the world, critically.
In the classroom, there are also a lot of texts of all types, and a different level of complexity, relating to curriculum and interest of students. This reflects students' needs as learning community. Resources are selected, organized, and managed by the students. Together, the teacher and students learn how to evaluate resources.
As Mara Jose Botelho, Assistant professor OISE, university of Toronto, said, texts can be something that surrounds us on a daily basis. So we can think of text in a broad way.
The development of critical literacy is not confined to the literacy block. It includes every subject area and beyond classroom context. In history class, for example, these types of questions can be used in critical literacy. "Whose point of view is represented? and Whose voice is missing?.. There are other types of questions : Comparison to other practices (styles and questions of reading)http://www.criticalliteracy.org.uk/whatiscl.html#table
http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/files/Nov29Questions.pdf
Students should read many books which they feel so easy. This will improve their ability of reading. If they don't know word's meaning, just read books is good for them. Because reading is a good study method. But they have to read as easy books as they can read their first language level. It's very difficult for students to read English books.
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