Types of Knowledge We Use to be Literate Thinkers

- And Why

Embodied Knowledge

• Embodied Knowledge: Creating the self with literacy.

(1st Consideration: Related to why our knowledge mattered)

Situated Knowledge

• Situated Knowledge: Translating Different Modes of Communication (IE formal to conversational, signs to visuals)

• (2nd consideration: Translated “3 kids” to an emotional response)

Distributed Knowledge

• Distributed Knowledge: Using social skills/technology as a networking tool

• (3rd consideration: Considered response from friends/family on the issue)

Negotiated Knowledge

• Negotiated Knowledge: Creating a new self/world view

from prior knowledge(4th consideration: attempted to assess the author’s point-of-view)

“This looks serious. Maybe I should volunteer.”

“Living under a symbol of tyranny? Now that’s scary.”

“Did you see that poster? We have to do something.”

“I now believe that Nuclear terrorism is the real threat.”

Literacy Knowledge as Critical

• Burke (2008) cites Myers’ research, explaining that students must be able to master ‘“the increased information diversity in [our] civic life”’ (Burke, pg. 36).

• Students arrive at new interpretations through “types of negotiations with ideas, people, tools, and traditions” (Burke, pg. 36).