{"id":304,"date":"2016-03-28T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/?p=304"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:48:11","slug":"types-of-literacy-where-do-we-draw-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/types-of-literacy-where-do-we-draw-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Literacy: Where Do We Draw the Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dr. Vee&#8217;s article, she makes the argument that computer coding is a type of literacy in and of itself, much like reading or writing literacy. In a broader sense, she defines literacy to be, &#8221; a human facility with a symbolic and infrastructural technology\u2014such as a textual writing system\u2014that can be used for creative, communicative and rhetorical purposes&#8221;. By this definition, computer coding is indeed literacy. Personally, I agree with her overall literacy definition as well as her stance on coding literacy.<\/p>\n<p>However, defining literacy in such a way leaves some wiggle-room and ambiguity. By that definition, modes such as music, painting, and even emojis could technically be considered forms of literacy, though each of these has intrinsic differences in complexity and structure. What do you think? At what level of complexity do we draw the line between something being literacy and it being a mere task?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dr. Vee&#8217;s article, she makes the argument that computer coding is a type of literacy in and of itself, much like reading or writing literacy. In a broader sense, she defines literacy to be, &#8221; a human facility with a symbolic and infrastructural technology\u2014such as a textual writing system\u2014that can be used for creative, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/types-of-literacy-where-do-we-draw-the-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Types of Literacy: Where Do We Draw the Line?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}