Each of the articles share the questions of first, how do we define literacy, and second, how do we go about literacy pedagogy.

Global connection and Cultural diversity are both issues concerning literacy education. I felt that the common goal of all three chapters was to come up with a 'design' that will allow us to prepare students of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds for successful futures in their working, public, and private lives.

The third selection describes multimodal literacy the best in discussing how we must be able to teach and learn about the meaning of meanings, and that meaning making is multimodal. Our senses are always working together to relay messages to our brain, and multimodal literacy works in a similar way.


In Response to Julie's comment:
I honestly don't know if such an idealistic design can be made. I think that the purpose of new literacy studies is to at least try to find a common ground between the past, present, and future of literacy studies and pedagogy. For now, I guess we have to accept the fact that literacy studies must be able to adapt to the constantly changing world.

Hey  Julie and Moushumi

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