What is the importance of literacy? More importantly how does it affect our formal education? What knowledge is relevant and what knowledge is trivia? This blog is our attempt to analyze not only the superficial answers to these questions but also why they are so crucial to our current debates. My role in our blog’s design was coming up with the template along with Bridget. We chose black because it was easy to read and provided a natural background with the picture Bridget found for our defining image. Also the black background is very traditional and this being our first blog we chose to keep things simple. We decided on the picture because it dealt directly with some of the follies of education and the school system, as well as it being witty and humorous. I chose the Far Side comic for the same reasons. It pokes fun at not only at the system (gifted schools) but also at the student for allowing himself to be duped or short handed. The young pupil is obviously supposed to be able to read as evidenced by his book, but there’s something missing between him knowing and him acting on that knowledge. This is where we would like to start with our blog, how do we turn this education into intelligent action. We would like to place evidence that not only is our actual literacy important but how we go about use this privilege is just as if not more vital in our development. Finally how can we use mediums, such as a blog, to address issues and concerns with the direction of today’s literate masses? I am most interested to see what reaction we get (if any) to our band’s thoughts and ideas. Will anyone even be able to find our website? Will they be confused, inspired, dumbfounded or simply bored? I will say this, any and all criticism is welcome as we are new to the blogging phenomenon.
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Great cartoon! How often have I found myself feeling like that "gifted idiot"--the one who lacks the ever vaunted "common sense." Your group's questions are so very vital...especially in terms of a class like "Writing Thru Media." Of course, what we are studying (honestly, anyone who is studying anything in the humanities) is suspect to quite a few people out there. We have to find justifications for our subject matter and methodologies that our friends in the sciences don't always have to come up with. Perhaps that is just, perhaps not. Something to consider. Of course, the fact that the humanities are rarely in the business of making $ makes a huge difference!
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