Chapter One - "Through the Looking Glass"
Raid One: Literacy Failure Analysis
Literacy is primarily something people do; it is an activity, located in the space between thought and text. Literacy does not just reside in people’s heads as a set of skills to be learned, and it does not just reside on paper, captured as texts to be analyzed. Like all human activity, literacy is essentially social, and it is located in the interaction between people.
– Hamilton and Barton, Local Literacies
– Hamilton and Barton, Local Literacies
Chapter Overview
When you disembark on your first journey, you feel the wave of freedom wash over you. You are in an unfamiliar place with a similar, but different set of objectives to complete. You pull out your journal and review your objectives: Find your identity; Learn about rhetoric; Reflect on your digital literacy; Write about failure.
You find yourself thinking about identity. Who am I? What is my specialization? What are my personal objectives in the Rhetorical Inn? You remark on how identity can be a frustrating and complicated concept to understand, but you will think it through on this adventure. As you walk through your journey, you start to recall what you know about rhetoric and argumentative essays. As you approach the Rhetorical Inn you see a bard making a charcoal drawing? You wonder...
You have three sessions to think about these concepts on your journey. Complete your assigned quests and adventures on your way to your first raid, the Digital Literacy Failure Analysis, and walk away successful.
You find yourself thinking about identity. Who am I? What is my specialization? What are my personal objectives in the Rhetorical Inn? You remark on how identity can be a frustrating and complicated concept to understand, but you will think it through on this adventure. As you walk through your journey, you start to recall what you know about rhetoric and argumentative essays. As you approach the Rhetorical Inn you see a bard making a charcoal drawing? You wonder...
You have three sessions to think about these concepts on your journey. Complete your assigned quests and adventures on your way to your first raid, the Digital Literacy Failure Analysis, and walk away successful.
Raid OverviewWhat is digital literacy (electracy) and how is it different than regular literacy? What does your reading say about this subject? As described in session, (Digital) Literacy is the ability to comprehend, analyze, and (re)produce information (in digital mediums). Can you think of a moment where you failed at doing this? Since we learn best through failure--as is a theme in gaming and this course--can you think about a moment when you did not communicate effectively or failed to comprehend something digitally? Could you not figure out a game or articulate how the rules or mechanics worked? Did you create a digital presentation where it completely failed to get the information across?
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Think about a moment while gaming, or any other moment of digital literacy, in which you failed at the task. Write about how that moment of failure changed you, your literacy habits, or approach to similar events. This is an informal writing assignment that should be told as a personal narrative.
Raid Instruction
I want you to think of a game--or a moment of digital literacy--at any point in your life, which has left an impression on you. How do your memories of this moment fit into the above definition of digital literacy? What were you comprehending, analyzing, and (re)producing? Think about the written or implied rules of the software. What skills were needed?
Beyond the skills needed to engage with the software, what social interactions were present? Literacy can be explained both through events and practices. Hamilton and Barton explain an event is an observable moment of literacy (interaction with a “text”). A practice is the surrounding factors that contributed to the actions of the event, whether it be rules/life lessons/experiences you bring to that event, or how the event is regulated.
Think of your literacy event and what practices surrounded it. What rules/influences did you have to follow? How were these broken or manipulated? How did these affect how you played/thought about your software? Do you associate a person or group of people with this software?
Beyond the skills needed to engage with the software, what social interactions were present? Literacy can be explained both through events and practices. Hamilton and Barton explain an event is an observable moment of literacy (interaction with a “text”). A practice is the surrounding factors that contributed to the actions of the event, whether it be rules/life lessons/experiences you bring to that event, or how the event is regulated.
Think of your literacy event and what practices surrounded it. What rules/influences did you have to follow? How were these broken or manipulated? How did these affect how you played/thought about your software? Do you associate a person or group of people with this software?
Three Steps
Step One: (Due by September 5)
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Requirements
- Written in MLA format.
- Works Referenced (if needed)
- At least one image in the text (should include image source).
- If a video is made, make sure you reference all images that are used.
- Use bold, italics, different fonts, and colors for emphasis in your written work.
Performance Record
Your raid score will be based on the following:
- Development of Literacy - The player must explore the concepts of comprehending, analyzing, and (re)producing through their event and the surrounding practices in the written work.
- Metanoic Reflection - The player explores their failure and analyzes what they learned about that moment.
- Time-Place-Object Specificity - Use details surrounding time, place, and objects in the written narrative.
- Development - There is a logical, natural flow and the central idea is well articulated. The writing should keep the attention of the reader without confusion. Fluid transitions as to not answer questions.
- Correctness - The writing follows the guidelines of word counts, 1 inch margins, MLA formatting, font specifications, cohesion, an image, a video/podcast, and respective specialization requirements.
Class Requirements
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Formatting Expectations |
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Submitting Raid |
Must be in "Raid One" folder in GoogleDrive.
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Important Deadlines
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Raid Due September 7.
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Stuart Literacy Narrative Example | |
File Size: | 16 kb |
File Type: | docx |