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Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. — Clive Thompson describes the results of the Stanford Study of Writing, mainly that young people today write far more than any generation before them.
posted by blasdelf
on Sep 20, 2009 -
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The Dark Side of Literacy - Indian education reform organization Shikshantar, who aims to encourage concepts of "Swaraj", or self-rule in local education, argues that current education and literacy models do not take into account local cultures and languages and gives too much credit to the Western alphabet. They also argue that there are many serious flaws in what they describe as UNESCO's campaign of "McEducation For All".
posted by divabat
on Jun 13, 2008 -
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What can video games teach us about learning and literacy? A lot, says James Paul Gee whose recent book approaches the question armed with three different discourses (situated cognition, new literacy studies, and connectionism). [mi]
posted by panoptican
on Nov 25, 2005 -
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Time to learn more about media literacy.
posted by hank_14
on Feb 25, 2005 -
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"'The best thing is being able to write my name,' says Siddiqa, 18...." Simple and powerful lessons are being taught in Afghanistan.
posted by donkeyschlong
on Sep 23, 2002 -
8 comments
This pidgin bible translation gives me the creeps. What happened to promoting literacy by example? Sure, it's important to use language that your readers
are comfortable with, but come on already. Is it any wonder that
education in Hawaii stinks?
posted by flestrin
on Sep 15, 2002 -
37 comments