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Oh these posty-scholars!

I honestly don’t know where to start from and so this time I might just walk you through how I read these articles and my thought process while reading it. I first read Leander and Boldt’s (2012) article about their concern with a pedagogy of multiliteraciies. They make the point that although the New London Group (1996) shifted a focus of one form of literacy to literacies and the multimodes in which these literacies can occur, the New London Group (1996) still thought of literacy practices as rational, structured and not messy. I would admit that it took me a while to see their point, and I only realized how important their point was when I read through Leander (2006) and Kuby and Vaughn’s (2015) articles. While I was reading the first article (Leander and Boldt, 2012), I kept thinking “Ooh these posty scholars are confusing me! I understand your point, but is this really necessary to make”. But guess what? It so is! Our literacies practices are messy. We often like to think e...