Tuesday, September 25, 2007
What is important in Literacy?
There are so many aspects you can pick from when it comes to literacy. Literacy is so important to ones life that I too forgot how much people need it. In my opinion, to be literate you must be able to read, write, learn, comprehend, and then re-teach pretty much anything you set your eyes on. For instance, in order to drive you must know what a one-way sign is and what its purpose represents. If someone does not know how to read the sign then they will be either driving into oncoming traffic or receiving a lot of tickets. My point is I feel all the components to literacy are important in understanding the true meaning of it. Being literate could range in all types of levels of intelligence. For example one can become a scholar in reading words in a spelling-bee while another person could be a great professional umpire. Either or, both talents requires everything in the lines of being literate. Literacy could also mean just picking up a book and improving on ones coordination and speed in reading. I know that this is something I need to start doing because I want to improve in both of those areas. I know I am a slower reader than the person next to me but I also know how I could make that improve. So to narrow it down, literacy is all around us, without it we would not be here, right now, using a computer, talking on a cell phone, doing your hair...we would be no where.
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As I read this post I could not agree more with the statement that reads, "Being literate could range in all types of levels of intelligence." I think taking that statement for granted is what causes a lot of negative reactions towards people. As a big sports fan when someone is not "sports literate" it's frustrating especially if the information to me is common knowledge. No one can lie at the fact that at some time in your life you may have been like wow thats person's "dumb" for not knowing certain information when in the end you have no idea what their interests are and the information you may not know about what they like. A big factor in the question of being considered literate or not is the topic you are basing it on.
Literacy is definitely individual -- it works differently in people, according to what we know, how we use language, all sorts of things. It constantly amazes me, the complexity of the human mind and its interaction with all the aspects of different contexts.
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