- Literacy means a continuum of learning and proficiency in reading, writing and using numbers throughout life and is part of a larger set of skills, which include digital skills, media literacy, education for sustainable development and global citizenship as well as job-specific skills.
- When I think of Literacy I think of the capability to read, write, listen, comprehend each other, and what is around us as a whole. After doing some research I was able to find that even though, for the general term “Literacy” there a couple ways it can be worded to each’s best terminology, it will always lead to the general aspect of reading, writing, talking, listening, understanding, even in a sense adapting. Literacy is seen as a very crucial peace too have not only as an individual but also as a institution, community, city, state, nation, continent, and human race as a whole. It could be considered as one of the leading factors to either empowerment and liberation or decline and oppression.
- John Trischitti does not really engage in what literacy in the start, but introduces illiteracy as a global disease where any place or time that it is at, there will be a lack of basic ability to understand or produce written information. Although unlike major afflictions or diseases where a cure is yet to be found, he believes that illiteracy does. The cure to illiteracy is literacy. He would continue to show statistics of where you can find the most illiteracy, showing that is in lower income households or communities, stating that unlike in a middle class household where the ratio of child to book is about 1 to 13, where as about in low income areas (the age appropriate book) is 1 book for every 300 children. He believes that literacy is a human right, that can define not only an individuals future but their surroundings as well. He continues to state that it doesn’t matter where you grow up, how much money you have acces to, your history, or whatever. So long as you have a proficient level of literacy, you can carry yourself as far as you would like, while also relating his back story as he states he is proof of the positivity and success that cane from placing him in a position to improve his literacy. Not only can literacy improve a life, but if influenced and engaged in especially our youngest of generations to the oldest, modern factors such as hunger, poverty, and even crime can be extinguished.
- I completely agree with Mr. Trischitti, and his belief in regards to literacy improvement. Not only did I come to a similar understanding in regards to the importance of literacy, but I was able to witness first hand what an opportunity like literacy improvement can do for an individual and hos surroundings as well. From being another statistic to a local hero, is only the start of many great accomplishment that were possible through literacy improvements. I would also like to see not only the lower/poverty class being aided, but as a global epidemic all kids to adults worldwide should have easy access and opportunities to literacy improvement,
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Hi AB! I think you make a crucial point when you say that one’s ability to read and write can either lead to “empowerment and liberation or decline and oppression.” I believe our society’s understanding of literacy is quite insular. Instead of understanding that literacy —or lack thereof— will follow you through your whole life, it is viewed as an academic thing that determines how well you perform in educational settings. As important as it is to improve literacy in our world, I think it is equally important for our world to recognize the impacts illiteracy can have on people’s lives.