5. Critical Literacy: Front & Center “Truth no longer exists, what matters these days….is what stories you spin.” Colin Lankshear
6. “We have to beware of Orwellian speech – Bush’s Clean Air Act Is a license to pollute. His Healthy Forest Initiative is a license to Log national forests.” “Frames trump facts.” George Lakoff
7. “The screen is overtaking the page In terms of the major vehicle of communication.” Gunter Kress
8. “Kids are learning more about what it means to be literate outside of school than in school.” -- James Paul Gee .
10. “In today’s environment if you don’t have critical literacy you are a sucker, you are going to end up in debt, you are going to end up on the streets, you are going to sign up with the first bank that offers you a crummy mortgage, you are going to wind up with a big Visa card debt, you are going to buy everything that is pushed your way.” Alan Luke
11. Barbara Comber’s definition of ‘Critical Thinking’ “…the use of language in powerful ways to get things done in the world, to enhance everyday life in schools and communities, and to question practices of privilege and injustice.”
12. “By analyzing visual information and teaching students to do the same, we provide them with needed tools to interrogate the very lifestyles they are being sold and to questions those bills of goods.”
13. “The goal of critical literacy is tocreate students who are agentsof text rather than victims of text.”
17. “Everyday texts need to be a regular part of the English language Arts classroom, not just for adolescents, but for children from preschool on.” Vivian Vasquez
18. “There are multiple literacies. What is important is what social practices are in place as that determines which literacies we value and which literacies we don’t really value much.” --Brian Street
19. “I see curriculum as a metaphor for the lives you wish to live and the people you want to be.” “Live on a daily basis the curriculum you are advocating.”
67. Because I believe teacher can’t do for children what they haven’t done for themselves: Invitation: Using Jacob Lawrence as your model, create a piece of art that makes a statement about the direction you think literacy and literacy education needs to be takiing.
68. A complete discussion of Critical Literacy has to Include: *A Theory of Dominance *A Theory of Access *A Theory of Diversity *A Theory of Re-Design