Youth Literacy

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In, Youth Literacies, the author is providing the readers an extension of work in communications towards new literacies. There are thirteen points that the author mentions about youth literacy and two that stood out for myself, as a reader, will be the YouthCLAIM project the Leave Out Violence (LOVE) project. To enumerate, the YouthCLAIM project is mainly about youth critical literacies and arts-intergrated media towards diversity in Vancouver, Canada. Therefore, there were three different groups for this particular project. These educators will be providing students, ages fourteen to twenty-six, with eclectic ethnics and cultural diversities. There will be three groups of literacy, technology, photo journalism, video production, new multimodal

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