I originally had no knowledge about reproduction literacy. In order to obtain information on the subject I had to refer to sources through conducting a search. I first found an article from the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning (EURODL) explaining that reproduction literacy is the ability to use pre-existing art, text, images, sound, or other forms to recreate your own thoughts and ideas. They emphasize this type of literacy is important in both writing and art. People must be able to think abstractly and be creative to use the ideas in a new way. From all of the literacy’s we have learned about, this is the one that I feel the least successful and comfortable with. I think you truly must be creative to be reproduction literate. I also think that it is still important to be aware of citing sources when needed to, even with reproduction literacy.
I agree that in order to be reproduction literate a person must possess certain skills. When using someone else’s work and then recreating to your own thoughts and ideas, we must still be very aware of plagiarismand sure to cite the correct sources. I personally find this difficult sometimes because there are a limited number of ways to say and express certain ideas/thoughts. Most of the teachers I had throughout high school emphasized paraphrasing more than just directly citing different sources. I feel like a person has to be rather creative in order to be reproduction literate. Personally, I an not a very artistic person so I do not really think of myself as being very reproduction literate. However, if it was absolutely necessary I think I could handle it to be somewhat creative and use my own thoughts and ideas.
I do think that reproduction has and will continue to change schooling/education. I think that there is now much more available information such as art, pictures, images, and other items that students will be able to use in order to enhance a project or help convey an idea easier in a presentation. With most of the other literacy’s I feel like our generation was the “experimental” age that first got to test and use the technologies. I think that as technology advances the way schools teach these skills will also continue to change using the digital world. It is a very broad and complex concept that I think may make education easier, and also may make it more complicated. However, I believe the benefits of reproduction literacy along with the other forms of literacy will forever remain important, especially throughout a person’s schooling/education.
I agree that one must possess certain skills to be considered reproduction literate. Even thought this literacy hasn’t changed education yet, I hope that it does so that younger generations will know the proper rules of taking information to produce an original piece of work.
Comment by arfalbo — November 1, 2006 @ 12:10 am
You make a good point that a person has to be able to think abstractly in order to be reproduction literate, and I also feel the least literate in this area. I have a hard time even grasping many instances in which one would use these skills outside of creating artwork, and I don’t think I have had much experience in it…I mainly think of web design with this reproduction literacy.
Comment by Abby Warner — November 1, 2006 @ 12:30 am
I agree that a person needs to have some creativity in order to be reproduction literate. I think that the creativity aspect applies to art more than writing though. Most people can paraphrase and combine other information to create their own sentences, but taking someone else’s art and making it your own.. .that’s another story!
Comment by Lacie Deeds — November 1, 2006 @ 1:23 am