Bucky C of the EN/SANE fame wrote a dandy of a piece on 21st Century literacy skills and the backlash therein. It involves comic literature in the classroom and is worth your time.
In paragraph six, Dr. Carter nails the proverbial documents to the door when he writes: "Literacy is a continuum." Simple. Succinct. Perfect. He goes on to say:
I'm all in on that one, but how do we help others see our comic literature efforts – not as "either/or" works set on kicking all classic (non-comic) literature to the door – but as one piece of the larger literacy puzzle?
Thoughts, anyone?
In paragraph six, Dr. Carter nails the proverbial documents to the door when he writes: "Literacy is a continuum." Simple. Succinct. Perfect. He goes on to say:
"That's why I am so keen on focusing on how comics can help students develop functional literacies, cultural literacies, critical literacies, and certainly New/Multimodal/21st century literacies. Getting at one literacy skill doesn't and shouldn't mean ignoring others."
I'm all in on that one, but how do we help others see our comic literature efforts – not as "either/or" works set on kicking all classic (non-comic) literature to the door – but as one piece of the larger literacy puzzle?
Thoughts, anyone?
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