What is literacy?

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Today was the first week of our literacy class.

Our main topic was about literacy. The question of the day was what is literacy?

We were to come up with our own definition of literacy and think of some other literacies that we have heard or know of in the class.

As for my own definition, I would define it as an ability to mentally visualize and perform with purpose to meet that particular visualization that one had in mind.

I think it is good that we think about different types of literacies and be more open about people’s different abilities to become literate on something.

However, most importantly, literacy is also an ability to understand something given some kind of information as well.

I think it is great to start off with the defining what we are trying to learn and engage in.

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Week 1 PE

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The first day was very interesting. We mainly reflected on our experiences in Physical Education classes during our school years before post-secondary education.

I never really felt or considered that Physical Education was not really doing anything because I as a participant remember really enjoying all PE classes. However, I realized that it was because I was just naturally active person and I remembered how there were some of my classmates who just could not participate well in the activities in general. I think I remember this happened more often during high school years.

I think some of our discussion was around how we could implement better quality physical education to the public school system as a teacher. I think the main take away from our first session is the idea of providing a physical education so that the students learn to become physically literate people and promote healthy living.

Overall, it was a good introduction to the teaching of physical activities.