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Hi Vivian,

First, congratulations and good luck with your upcoming talks on podcasting. Through listening and talking with you about your shows, these exciting events will be fascinating for you and surely in result will give all of your listeners more to think about. Your inquisitive and informative shows always leave me wanting more!

Also, I am so glad to hear Hilary’s voice and words again. Thank you for bringing her ideas and awareness to the larger world community to get even more people thinking. Those of us who heard her that day have already been trying to reflect further on our personal practices and also apply ideas to our school.

Thanks for everything!
Carol

Thanks Carol! A big part of my work connects with thinking with awesome teachers like you! I always appreciate the support and enjoy the work that we’re doing with your second grade podcasters!

Hilary is such a thoughtful and inspirational colleague and friend. She always leaves us with new wonderings. I can’t wait for her next visit.

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vivian

Hi, Vivian (and Carol!)…
I was so sad to have to miss Hilary’s visit, so it was great to be able to hear her here. If you have any more recordings of her visit, I would love to hear. It is always so inspiring to hear her and talk with her, and with you as well! You are an incredible support to so many of us! I miss working more closely together.
Shannon

Hi Shannon,
Thank you for the kind words. They are most appreciated. Keeps me going! It has been too long. We need a get together!

I’m glad you enjoyed Hilary’s audio!

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v

Thanks Vivian and Hilary for posting this talk. We met at school to debrief after the conversation at AU and had a laugh looking over our notes–half sentences, phrases, words like bidurian. At one point I wrote “ask Vivian what she said.” You must’ve said something smart.

I’ve been thinking about identity–Hilary talked about how it goes somewhere within this model. I know we have more than one identity. We design and redesign text–how does that impact our identity or identities?

Thanks for the link to the paper because I should reread it. Also Choice Words.

Happy day.
Kath

Vivian,

Listening to Professor Janks talk really helped bring her Interrelated Model to life, especially the interplay between power and access. Her recounting of the interview project she did really displayed “access” as a two-way street. My research for other classes on marginalization in the formal education system also leads me to consider this point. Members of non-dominant or marginalized groups do not only need to have access to the culture of power, but their culture, values, perspectives and experiences must have access to (or have a place in) the learning space. This is the issue I’ve seen with the multicultural models used in different countries, especially in Western Europe. They make a valiant effort to provide mother tongue and cultural instruction for recent immigrant groups and ethnic and linguistic minorities, but they do not bring these cultures, perspective, experiences etc into the mainstream classroom with majority group students. Then of course Thinking about bringing different and minority group experience, etc into the classroom, leads to design consideration….. It really is an interraleted model, and an enlightening and practical way to think about creating critical literacy into education programming, wherever it may be.

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Thanks for your comments Kathleen and Erin. How interesting that from different perspectives you both are getting at, and raising issue regarding issues of identity and identity construction. And with this of course, as indicated in Janks’ interrelated model ,are issues of access and re-design.

The instance you share is very powerful in demonstrating why and in a sense how Janks’ interrelated model could make a difference for often marginalized individuals and people.

Thanks
vivian

Dr. Vivian,

Thank you for posting Dr. Janks’s talk. It really left me thinking about what we possibly could do here in the states in creating dialogue about the harsh realities of slavery and the renaments that it left. Dr. Janks mentions that when we talk about giving kids access, we talk about giving kids access to priviledge knoweledges. We have to think about how to extend the range of what knoweledge is priviledged in the classroom. The TRC pedagogy did this with having children to find out real facts from both ends of the spectrum. I think that is a wonderful and excellent way to more beyond the stigma of apartheid. It this method was applied to teaching children about slavery/African-American history, their experience and knoweledge would be richer.

Hi Vivian,

I agree with Charles, the site re-design is very impressive and really does suit the essence of CLIP!

Thank you for give us not critical literacy people a little bit of background an a better understanding as to what critical literacy CAN look like. I know I\’ve been around this subject for as long as I\’ve known you (over 20 years) and it\’s still a little fuzzy around the edges.

Thank you for this show and I look forward to more \”Critical Literacy for Dummies\” in the future!

Andy Bilodeau
http://www.andycast.net

Love the updated postmodern look and design! And thanks for attaching that great article by Hillary Janks, I love having these resources–feel free to attach more! The 100% kids sounds wonderfully promising as well, can’t wait to see and hear how it’ll evolve. Very inspiring Vivian! It’s beginning to stir some ideas for ncte so please keep us tuned in!

Thanks Andy and Anna. I hope to be able to do more and more with CLIP and this site. I’m glad you like it. We recorded the first podcast which was very exciting for the second graders, their teacher and me. They even came up with ‘radio names’ and so forth. Carol, their teacher was telling me that the kids are saying they did some of their best writing for the show…so we’ll see how things unfold in the future.

I’ll keep posting resources !

vivian

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Hi Professor Vasquez-

I love that you are focusing on the “how to” of critical literacy. Those of us new to the classroom and critical literacy need some ideas from all aspects of this wonderful arena for learning. Most powerful was the quote of Janks, “…changing dominant discourses, as well as changing those that are dominant.” I will have to think about this for a while, how do you change those that are dominant? It is very encouraging to hear that you and Janks also promote such new resources in our classroom. Students, especially my high schoolers love to find things on the Internet, and YouTube has become an integral part of my teaching. I think that both you and Janks would approve.

I love that you redesign your site when telling us about how to redesign our classrooms. Looks great.

Lara