Digital Literacy
What is Digital Literacy?
E-safety, Effective Communication, The ability to find and select information, Collaboration, Cultural and Social Understanding, Creativity, Functional Skills, and Critical Thinking and Evaluation
What is intersectionality?
Race, sexuality, class, disability, and gender
When was Gallaudet University founded?
1864
What is culture?
Culture involves values, beliefs, social forms and traits of a group of people.
What is the difference between monolingual, bilingual, and bimodal?
MONOLINGUAL
Using or knowing one language
BILINGUAL
Using or knowing more than one language
BIMODAL
Development and use of language in more than one modality (signed, written, and spoken)
What is our focus on Literacy Digital?
Learning Management Systems, Applications, E-Mail, and Social Media
How does social context influence our perceptions of race, class, and gender?
How we think, discuss, or see things when it comes to race, class, and gender depends on our experiences.
What happened on April 15, 1817?
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the first Deaf school in US.
What is the difference between Medical and Cultural Perspective?
There are often two contrasting perspectives: One perspective: Cochlear implants support access to the hearing world and help with hearing and speaking. The other perspective: Cochlear implants hurt the deaf community because the focus is on hearing and speaking and not on sign language, which is visual and accessible
The ability to use languages for the purposes of communication and to take part in intercultural action, where a person, viewed as a social agent, has proficiency, of varying degrees, in several languages and experiences of several cultures.
What is Learning Management Systems related to Gallaudet University? (as a student)
BlackBoard, Navigate, BISON, and YOU
Who discovered the intersectionality theory?
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
Who was the first woman that graduated from Gallaudet University?
Alto May Lowman
What is Cultural Capital?
Cultural capital involves the use of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities, and interactions to influence resistance to disadvantages. Deaf cultural capital wealth looks at being Deaf as a positive attribute. This promotes resiliency in the face of difficult experiences. Visual language, visual learning, and connections with Deaf people are examples of Deaf cultural capital wealth.
Why do we have a varying degree of language proficiency within the deaf community?
High ASL- High English
High ASL- Low English
High ASL- No English
Low ASL- Low English
Low ASL- High English
NO ASL- High English
List the main categories for your studies
Word Processing (MS Word, Google Drive)
Spreadsheet, Presentation, Video Editing, Storage, and Video Conference
When was intersectionality first popularized?
in 1989
Why is one of the buildings named over Andrew Foster?
He was the first Black man to graduate.
What are examples of Deaf Community Members?
Deaf Children of Deaf Parents
Deaf Children of Hearing Parents
Hearing Members in Deaf Families
Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Late-Deafened Individuals
DeafBlind People
What are the types of Bilinguals?
Early: Simultaneous and Sequential
Late: Elective, Circumstantial, Instrumental, Integrative
What is E-Mail Etiquette?
Why is intersectionality important to sociology?
It was addressed the experiences of people who are subjected to multiple forms of oppression within society.
Who was the first president of Gallaudet University?
Edward Miner Gallaudet
How Many Deaf People Are There?
What are the similarities to hearing bilinguals?
Diverse
Their own language community
Their use of two languages for different functions and purposes