Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The development of Initial Literacy

The article by Goodman. Is very simple goes through basics of how kids learn to read and write. He states that kinds in their early age start to realize things, even before they go to school. At home from their parents the kids learn a lot of things. Its true they do learn from their parents or alders around them. I have a nice she is not even one year old, but she sees his mother and father talking on the phone so she makes her hand as phone and acts like she is talking to someone. Even though she does not know what her parents are doing, just because she sees them doing it so she does it to.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought

Like teacher was saying in Class it was hard to read this. She was right this was hard to read, for me even harder english is my second language. What i understood was it was between comparing how when people started writing how they plato and other fealt about, same thing now days people feel about computers. Like they rezested then they are doing same thing they are doing with computers.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Literacy and individual consciousness

By reading this i just said wow, not only so much detail but how much similar it was to the culture we followed when my family was living in Pakistan. The disagreement over how old his kid was. My dad tell us a story at old time when they were growing up. Every there or four month a person would go to the big city so since that time they would give them list of kids were born in the village for last three four months. So some people forget what day there kid was born so they would make up date and give to the person with their name so he could register them. So when i read that father arguing with teacher of the age of the kid made me smile. I loved reading this paper it was so interesting. When he says they gave him so much respect because he was able to talk to white man in white mans language. So many similarities in the culture i grow up.