This video is Adam Freidlander’s response to a request for his favorite writing style at Cornell University.
A fellow community college writing teacher and writer Liz Gonzalez shared the video on Facebook. It started playing there as well as on youtube so I originally thought he had intentionally produced a mash-up to illustrate the cacophony of literacy in the digital age. I suggest you try it that way too by playing both at once!
Since my students are also working on their first writing assignment, one that invites them to write about their own literacy and education in the context of one of the readings by Mike Rose, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X, or to write about culture, race or gender using readings and/or their own experiences like Judith Ortiz Cofer, N Scott Momaday, Maxing Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, and Gloria Anzaldua, I thought they might enjoy this student’s take on a similar assignment.
Related articles
- Digital literac(ies) (purplelineassociates.com)
- Literacy: a fundamental life-skill (unicef.org.au)
- Literacy, literacy, literacy… (fisherje1234.wordpress.com)
whisper down the write alley 