TeamAwesome

-AUTONOMOUS MODEL--- 1) Definition/examples: The "autonomous" model of literacy has been widely accepted for years, but recently has faced much opposition. This model assumes that literacy is independent (or autonomous) from any social, cultural or historical context. An example of an exponent of the autonomous model is our beloved Walter Ong, a Great Divide theorist. On page 432, Ong says, "By isolating thought on a written surface, detached from any interlocutor, making utterance in this sense autonomous and indifferent to attack, writing presents utterance and thought as univolved in all else, somehow self-contained, complete." For more examples, see chapter 25 in "Literacy: A critical Sourcebook" 2) Importance: This is a keyword because althought it's been accepted for years, we now have so much more research technology and information about illiterate cultures that we are seeing other possibilities than this autonomous model. **(Does this model still sway us -- do we find ourselves privileging reading and writing over oral, visual or hybrid texts? Does schooling perpetuate this model -- what can we as teachers do?)** 3) Questions: Street asks, how do you explain illiterate cultures that have developed cognitively without literacy? How is critical thinking possible without literacy? 4) Conflicts/doubts/contradictions: There are many opposers to this (like Street himself) yet those who believe in the Great Diide Theory will most likely always oppose this, disregarding all we now know about illiterate cultures/communities. **(Is the issue about illiteracy -- or does the divide interest us because of the claims it makes for the prominence of literacy over orality, visual texts and hybrid texts? )**

PEDAGOGY: 1) The function or work of a teacher; teaching. 2) The method and practice of teaching, esp. as an academic subject or theoretical concept. _Importance: As future teachers this is an important word to understand. It is our Way. _Questions/Complications: This key term is pretty straight forward, I have no questions after seeing the definition and had not complications in finding or understanding it. If you like, here is an example: Observe my fantastic pedagogy and be awed.

Paradigm - **(I wonder if this is really a key term for us -- if so how? what does it clarify or help us to think about and how -- if you want to keep it as a key term, please expand...)** //(This wasn't my word, so I don't really feel the need to defend it, but you were the person who accepted it as a key term in the first place -Jeff)//
 * W.D.: Frankel talks of "paradigm cases" when she is talking about the "new literacies." She says that "new literacies are not about using new technology in old ways but, rather, about using new technology in new ways. The new 'technical stuff' is unique in that it 'enables people to build and participate in literacy practices that involve different kinds of values, sensibilities, norms, and proedures.'" || Importance: paradigm is important because it is used to describe the "new literacies" of Web 2.0. It is the technical term for the combination of the peripheral cases - which have the "ethos stuff" - and the "technical stuff" of the new literacies. ||
 * Questions: What can be described as a paradigm case? As technology and Web 2.0 get more and more popular and continue to grow, will paradigm cases evolve with that and grow with the web culture around them? || Complications: One of the largest complications with this word is that it has multiple meanings in several different fields of study. It is used in literacy theory, linguistics as a grammar term, and in science, i.e. paradigm shift. It has so many technical meanings and definitions that it is hard to pin down the exact meaning. ||