October 25 lecture notes

We watched clips from the movie The Reader starring Kate Winslet. In the clips that we watched it shows Kate Winslet who is an illiterate woman who has her lover/boyfriend read books to her in flashbacks of the main story. Mr. Z then showed us that in the future this woman is put on trial for murder, and accused of writing incriminating letters. The majority of women who took the stand said she wrote the letters, and I have no idea why because we didn’t see that part of the story. Anyways, when the judge asks the woman (Kate Winslet) to write on a paper so that they can compare her handwriting to that of the letter, she is so ashamed of her illiteracy that she confesses to a murder that she did not commit. Then we talked about text literacy, visual literacy, network literacy, and education literacy. Text literacy was things like stuff we read in books magazines. Visual literacy is stuff we see and draw a message from like a stop light. We learn that green means go, yellow slow down, and red means stop. There are no words that tell us what these mean. When we see these colors we automatically know what it means. Or when someone puts their finger over their mouth you know they mean to be quiet. There are no words involved, rather we read the sign and know what it means. Network Literacy I believe he said it means like the internet and text and phone etc... We also talked about education literacy. This is all about literacy done for school as well as things teachers teach. I don't completely remember the entire lecture too well but I do remember that we watched a video on visual literacy. It talked a lot about the things we see on TV and how the media affects the way we see things. We also watched clips from the movie called the reader. In the end, the girl would rather admit to writing a letter and committing the crime than for everyone to find out that she couldn't read. Overall, we talked about all the different kinds of literacy and how education literacy maybe disappearing due to all the other kinds of literacy. I don't believe education literacy will ever disappear. I just can't imagine being taught by a computer can be more effective than being taught by a teacher. As far as I’m concerned, education literacy will be around till the end of my life at least.