What is literacy?
Reading, writing, visual, gym, computer, emotional, scientific, history
To be knowledgeable and have a practical understanding in a subject, competency, social (navigate the community, communicate it to others)
Receive and communicate ideas.
Douglass “Learning to Read and Write”
The importance of literacy, the drive Douglass had to learn to read and write, how he hated knowing part but never being able to finish (when the mistress taught him some letters), how the slaves were kept from literacy because it was dangerous to let them have knowledge.
A blessing and a curse- Deuteronomy 11:26- “I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.” The law is a blessing (if they obey) and a curse (if they do not)
Liberal Arts- (grammar, rhetoric, logic) – liber- free, Slaves were kept from these because if they knew they would argue they are being mistreated.
Siegel “The World Is All That Is the Case”
Computers will make people more introverted, or self-centered, hackers, pedophiles, creates a need for more technology. Make everything economic. Changes our concept of what is real (reality TV, documentaries)
Everything is easy to get and if you don’t have the money right now there are credit cards.
The Starbucks idea- that everyone is secluded in their own little internet world
Has the internet blurred our vision of reality? Creating avatars, profiles, a virtual world. It’s more media, and people don’t double check the facts.
‘The world is all that is the case’ means that we can shape reality (which is the idea that the internet gives us) but there is still the true reality.
It also changes our perception of public vs. private.
The argument of the piece is…. We should have an awareness of the change and adapt accordingly.
Discussion of coding and track changes and editing courtesy.
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