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Digital
Literacies
​In the most traditional and simplistic sense, literacy refers to reading and writing (the stuff that English classes are usually about).  But there is never anything simple about literacy.   What you read (in school especially), what and who gets published, what you write about, and how you write for institutions like college are always VERY politically loaded.  
Literacy is never about simply punctuating sentences or knowing a lot of vocabulary words that make you look smart… even though far many English teachers dumb down literacy this way in their classrooms.  Literacy is you look at and act on your world.  We refer to digital literacies today because we need to remind ourselves that it is simply no longer enough to only read and write the printed, alphabetic page.  Writing classrooms today stress that being literate means being successful with multiple technologies. That is where we will start the semester: we will politicize digital literacies in the 21st century and look closely at ourselves as we create our own technology literacy narratives. Sa-Roc (playing in the background or just click the player above) will inspire our approach to how we narrate our lives online and off: "just tryna do the right thing, hope that it improves me."

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McGraw-Hill & Pannapacker
​Reading Assignment
You have a reading assignment today by McGraw-Hill and Pannapacker.  In writing, choose one or the other author and make your own interesting argument about the author.  Do not be boring and stiff in your writing but make sure that you write this in a way such that a reader can tell who and what you are referencing. Come to class with your reading response to McGraw-Hill OR Pannapacker (choose one or the other and make your own interesting argument about the author).  This reading response must be 500 words (at least). It must be typed and in hardcopy format.  Emailed responses will not be accepted. This is Assignment #2 for the course (worth 2 points).
 
In class, we will start work on technology literacy narratives.  If you are absent, you will need to go to the course website and figure out how to write a first draft on your own.