Literacies

The concept of literacy is still something that I think a struggle with a bit. The way it is typically discussed in class seems to suggest to me that being literate in something simply means understanding it. I have a problem with this because such a thing is impossible to write about, it is too difficult to know where to begin.

I wish we had come up with some kind of specific definition for literacy in class (I remember that we did a bit, but for some reason I can't quite remember it). The most important component is communication. At first my understanding of literacy was that to be literate in something one needed to understand enough about it to communicate with others about it. I think I prefer to think of literacy as not being fluent in something, but rather being fluent in a form of communication. At least, that's what I'm going to write about in my literacy narrative. Music has been brought up a bit and is perfect in this sense because music is a form of communication. I might also use it for my narrative, but I'm not certain yet.