Article #2 Summary & Response

This article was about transliteracy, which is a term used to describe how communication has changed. This term represents how communication has grown and changed from “orality to art, to print, to movies, to musical messages, to multimedia presentations, and to combinations of all of the above.” (Although this is a direct quote from the article, I would easily argue that communication through musical messages came long before communication through movies.) The author goes on to describe how these changes in communication affect student’s ability to reach some specific common core standards, some of the benefits and concerns about reading across electronic platforms, and some advice and tactics to keep students focused on what they are reading.

While reading this article, I wasn’t quite sure at first what the intended audience was. By the end, I came to the assumed conclusion that this was written by and for librarians. Although I am not the intended audience, I found this article to be very informative and interesting. It also brought up some concerns and questions for me as well. My main interest in this article is the effects of transliteracy on Common Core Standards. Student’s work all the way through school in order to prepare themselves for college and the work force, and I was very worried when the article did bring up one of the Common Core English Language Arts standards. Students should be able to “read and comprehend complex literary and information text independently and proficiently.” What I got from this article is that students are not meeting this standard, or we are going to see it in the future. This made me think about college course text books. For me, just this week, I was expected to read 7 chapters in 4 different texts. Most of these chapters are something I am expected to fully independently and proficiently comprehend the text and there is always a possibility that it will be on a test or the final, even without discussing it in class. Therefore, it worries me and makes me think about how much of an effect transiliteracy can have on the efficiency and success of a college student.