AlanaJacobsEnglish207 Blog

We use visuals to help learn. Some find it easier to retain information visually rather than by hearing it read to them. Visuals play a huge role in communication because being able to interpret symbols, draw diagrams, and read maps indicates whether you are visually literate and thus assists you in part of your ability to communicate. Visuals are important to my education because it helps me associate and relate what I am seeing and learning with aspects in my personal life. Using visuals in my future career as a teacher will be vital as each student is an individual and requires different strategies to effectively learn. As a teacher, if I choose to use only one set of tools to teach, I will be limiting my students’ literacy.

Txting

Phone Conversations

Submitting applications

E-mails

Face-to-face conversations

Searching the Internet, checking and reading e-mail, Facebook, or Myspace

Taking notes in class or folowing along with the textbook, overhead, or Powerpoint

Reading novels

I expect to learn about multiple literacies from this class and how they relate to or will benefit my ILA/AYA major. I understand literacy to be the ability to read and write a language. We write to be able to communicate and understand one another. Writing is important in learning about our history, as well as our present and future.