BAGUIO JR.

ADONIS CORSINO BSED2F SCIENCE (EDUC 18 D0100)

1. How deep is your level of comprehension in the matter that was discussed?
 Reading comprehension is the ability to process information that we have read and
understand it’s meaning. This is a complex process with three levels of understanding:
literal meaning, inferential meaning, evaluate meaning. Literal meaning is what the text
describes as happening in the story.
2. Which of the new literacies are you knowledgeable in? which of the new literacies do you lack
knowledge in?
 For me the new literacies that I am knowledgeable in READING AND WRITING, because
it helps me learn more about everything if you keep reading and keeping on writing
helps you have your own beautiful font.
3. Although reading education in the Philippines aims to develop Functional/Practical literacy
learners, what level of literacy is being develop when classroom practices focus more on
memorization rather than on understanding and application?
 Implementing this new policy has been a huge undertaking for the Philippines
Department of Education(DepEd) but it’s a partnership with EDC through the USAID
funded Basa Pilipinas program has delivered noteworthy results. Since 2013 for 1.8
million students in over 3,000 schools. DepEd is now preparing to roll out basa’s
approach and materials to every primary school in the country.
4. Compare and contrast traditional concept of literacy to the modern view of literacy?
 Notions such as the idea that multiple literacies exist have been around for some time,
but are probably still considered modern. These days we talk about things like
emotional literacy and social media & online literacy. So the parameters in which we use
the word ‘literacy’ have expanded**. Being ‘literate’ includes not only knowing the nuts
and bolts of something, but the pragmatic and unwritten elements of it — what you do
and don’t share, how to keep yourself safe online, what to look for to identify scams and
predators vs. legitimate content, disreputable vs. reputable sources (this last one
belongs to traditional definitions of literacy too). Being able to critically engage with
texts belongs in both definitions of literacy.
 I think a Venn diagram approach could be a useful way to compare and contrast
‘traditional’ and ‘modern’. I would draw the circles so there’s a lot of overlapping space,
but other people might not. This comes back to my first comment; the more narrowly
you define traditional literacy, the less overlap your diagram will have.

 This might not be old school enough for you. It’s also potentially more academic or
‘teacherly’ than you were thinking, as I have no idea if you’re coming at this from an
academic/scholarly approach (which I assumed was your goal) or from a more everyday,
layperson view. If it’s the latter, defining a traditional view of literacy might be as
straightforward as ‘being able to read and write well enough to function as an adult’. If
you’re looking at a layperson’s definition/understanding of literacy, I’m not sure how
much change there will have been in how people define it. Finding out might make for
an interesting research project though.
When thinking of the expanded way we use the word ‘literacy’, it occurs to me that
there’s an increasing expectation that people in wider society should be able to
understand and discuss concepts that were once almost always confined to academia,
like gender, race.