Production # 2
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Kurt Thumlert September 15,2017
EDUC 3900 Studies in Popular Culture
Karoul Hannawi
“New literacies studies start with the view that literacy-learning is best understood, engaged, and enacted in dynamic social situations- within authentic cultural contexts”. In other words, new literacies get the learning out of the student’s head and situates it in the real world. It is a socio-cultural happening that represents how people act within the society.
The traditional approach of teaching literacy follows a simple input-output model of instructions. It views literacy as a cognitive phenomenon, which results learning experience that it is separated from the living cultural contexts of life. While new literacies are not a mental phenomenon, but rather a socio cultural one, in which literacy skills are connected to media of all kind.
For example, Text—messaging, blogging, social networking, and videomaking, are all different types of literacy that are becoming very accessible and convenient as it is the technology of choice for todays young people. it provides students with great opportunities to create their own understanding, learning, and culture. The following quote discusses how new media can be a great way for expressing students’ researches, knowledge, and art, “Intersections such as these between popular culture and new literacies have become quite common, particularly among young people with access to tool for integrating knowledge from multiple popular culture texts across different media platforms and then this disseminating the remixed product through cyberspace” (Bruce, 2002; Snyder, 2002).
Popular culture is constantly being used or integrated into school lessons and new literacies provides educators with the platform to approach any issue from many angles. Since new literacies is a relatively fresh concept and still new to most teacher’s teaching style it can originally be looked at as “unschool-like” or have less transfer potential than material retrieved from textbooks. However new literacies offer a lot of versatility as teachers can use platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or simple computer applications to get their message across to students.
EDUC 3900 Studies in Popular Culture
Karoul Hannawi
“New literacies studies start with the view that literacy-learning is best understood, engaged, and enacted in dynamic social situations- within authentic cultural contexts”. In other words, new literacies get the learning out of the student’s head and situates it in the real world. It is a socio-cultural happening that represents how people act within the society.
The traditional approach of teaching literacy follows a simple input-output model of instructions. It views literacy as a cognitive phenomenon, which results learning experience that it is separated from the living cultural contexts of life. While new literacies are not a mental phenomenon, but rather a socio cultural one, in which literacy skills are connected to media of all kind.
For example, Text—messaging, blogging, social networking, and videomaking, are all different types of literacy that are becoming very accessible and convenient as it is the technology of choice for todays young people. it provides students with great opportunities to create their own understanding, learning, and culture. The following quote discusses how new media can be a great way for expressing students’ researches, knowledge, and art, “Intersections such as these between popular culture and new literacies have become quite common, particularly among young people with access to tool for integrating knowledge from multiple popular culture texts across different media platforms and then this disseminating the remixed product through cyberspace” (Bruce, 2002; Snyder, 2002).
Popular culture is constantly being used or integrated into school lessons and new literacies provides educators with the platform to approach any issue from many angles. Since new literacies is a relatively fresh concept and still new to most teacher’s teaching style it can originally be looked at as “unschool-like” or have less transfer potential than material retrieved from textbooks. However new literacies offer a lot of versatility as teachers can use platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or simple computer applications to get their message across to students.
production# 3
Kurt Thumlert Sep 26,2017
EDUC 3900 Studies in Popular Culture
Karoul Hannawi
I believe that each and every one of us was a subject to someone’s imposed representation in some period of his/her life. People are quick to make impressions and assumptions of a person or a place depending on a story they heard, a book they read, a video they’ve watched, or how its been presented in the media. “In everyday conversations, we often get the sense that people discuss the news as though it were facts” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, p15). I think that the critical part is when we take this story as a fact, we believe it, and live with it rather than see it as an individual’s opinion.
As a Syrian woman coming to Canada in 2014, I had my struggles with the imposed representation that most Canadians had about me. People already had their stereotypes about my country, my life, how I should look, what I was supposed to wear, and they even assumed my believes and thoughts before I even opened my mouth. I have been asked a variety of strange and sometimes insulting questions such as: “where did you learn English so well, “why are you not wearing a hijab to cover your hair?”. “Most of us do not want to admit that media influences how we come to know ourselves and others. [Yes] we have the ability to think critically about what we see and hear, [but] there will always be other institutions…that influence how we come to know the world” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, p9). Most people get influenced by how the media presents Syrians and conclude that all Syrian women must look alike. They often assume they are Muslim, uneducated refugees in a camp accompanied by homeless children.
To this day, I constantly find myself in the position of repairing and reforming the only image that Canadians have about Syria. However, that single image that people immediately have of me is not who I am or what I represent. There is not always a correlation between how people look and who they are. Being in Canada for the past three years I have come to the understanding that “people do [try to] resist the meanings intended by media producers and [I personally have concluded] that media do[es] not present only one viewpoint at all times” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, page 8) which is a positive aspect.
EDUC 3900 Studies in Popular Culture
Karoul Hannawi
I believe that each and every one of us was a subject to someone’s imposed representation in some period of his/her life. People are quick to make impressions and assumptions of a person or a place depending on a story they heard, a book they read, a video they’ve watched, or how its been presented in the media. “In everyday conversations, we often get the sense that people discuss the news as though it were facts” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, p15). I think that the critical part is when we take this story as a fact, we believe it, and live with it rather than see it as an individual’s opinion.
As a Syrian woman coming to Canada in 2014, I had my struggles with the imposed representation that most Canadians had about me. People already had their stereotypes about my country, my life, how I should look, what I was supposed to wear, and they even assumed my believes and thoughts before I even opened my mouth. I have been asked a variety of strange and sometimes insulting questions such as: “where did you learn English so well, “why are you not wearing a hijab to cover your hair?”. “Most of us do not want to admit that media influences how we come to know ourselves and others. [Yes] we have the ability to think critically about what we see and hear, [but] there will always be other institutions…that influence how we come to know the world” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, p9). Most people get influenced by how the media presents Syrians and conclude that all Syrian women must look alike. They often assume they are Muslim, uneducated refugees in a camp accompanied by homeless children.
To this day, I constantly find myself in the position of repairing and reforming the only image that Canadians have about Syria. However, that single image that people immediately have of me is not who I am or what I represent. There is not always a correlation between how people look and who they are. Being in Canada for the past three years I have come to the understanding that “people do [try to] resist the meanings intended by media producers and [I personally have concluded] that media do[es] not present only one viewpoint at all times” (Stack & M.Kelly 2006, page 8) which is a positive aspect.