What counts as literacy and why is it important in this
evolving culture of web based literacy?
Literacy is basically an individual’s ability to read and grasp one’s
own language for the improvement of themselves and those they will encounter. Levels
of literacy are often based on social construct, formal rhetoric, a level of
grammar comprehension, sociology of class-speech, and formal rhetoric to speak
of a few. The importance of literacy is immeasurable when we look at the
challenges we face in the world today which require active communication either
online, in the workforce (person to person), or in the quality of the literature
we read for enjoyment.
In today’s emerging world of new social media and the
escalating use of the internet, our youth are encountering a way of learning
and the expression of ideas that did not exist in past generations. In the schools, it is evident from a teacher’s
or a learner’s outlook that there is a
growing gap between those who immerse themselves in these new avenues of
communication and those who struggle to accept them. Literacy is not based on
one’s current level of knowledge, but on the ability to accept and grow from
the world that is evolving around us.
There was a time when literacy could be based solely on how
well we could read or write, but if we take a word based in its purest form, we
see that it is neither reliant nor a negligible singularity of our language.
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