#literacy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #literacy, aggregated by home.social.
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“We “had five years left to cry in” and the “earth was really dying.” It’s pretty bleak.
It is not reassuring to convince people that AI is going to make the world better while playing a song about the end of the world, and yet, this contradictory musical choice seems to have sailed right past everyone at Meta, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Meta has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and shape your world in the ways you want,” he wrote alongside the video. “As we enter this next wave with AI, we continue to believe the future is for everyone. We’re focused on giving every person the tools to reach your full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to everyone.”
Then again, tech leaders are not known for their literary analysis skills.”
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“We “had five years left to cry in” and the “earth was really dying.” It’s pretty bleak.
It is not reassuring to convince people that AI is going to make the world better while playing a song about the end of the world, and yet, this contradictory musical choice seems to have sailed right past everyone at Meta, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Meta has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and shape your world in the ways you want,” he wrote alongside the video. “As we enter this next wave with AI, we continue to believe the future is for everyone. We’re focused on giving every person the tools to reach your full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to everyone.”
Then again, tech leaders are not known for their literary analysis skills.”
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Hmmm. This looks like a challenging response to Rose Horowitch's recent cover story for The Atlantic, “The End of Reading Is Here,” which the author tells us is "the Platonic form of pearl clutching clickbait about the decline of reading".
I'll have to read it closely, follow the links, and spend some time thinking about it.
#Literacy #PostLiteracy #Reading #Communication #Media #EndOfReading #RoseHorowitch
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Hmmm. This looks like a challenging response to Rose Horowitch's recent cover story for The Atlantic, “The End of Reading Is Here,” which the author tells us is "the Platonic form of pearl clutching clickbait about the decline of reading".
I'll have to read it closely, follow the links, and spend some time thinking about it.
#Literacy #PostLiteracy #Reading #Communication #Media #EndOfReading #RoseHorowitch
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Se in Italia ci preoccupiamo molto dell'andamento dei test INVALSI, negli USA la situazione non è tanto diversa.
Le capacità di lettura degli studenti, anche universitari, sono in diminuzione e i professori si preoccupano di come rispondere a un pubblico di allievi che non vuole più leggere testi lunghi e chiede scorciatoie.
I docenti stanno solo resistendo ai cambiamenti o si creeranno nuovi paradigmi?
#education #reading #literacy
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Se in Italia ci preoccupiamo molto dell'andamento dei test INVALSI, negli USA la situazione non è tanto diversa.
Le capacità di lettura degli studenti, anche universitari, sono in diminuzione e i professori si preoccupano di come rispondere a un pubblico di allievi che non vuole più leggere testi lunghi e chiede scorciatoie.
I docenti stanno solo resistendo ai cambiamenti o si creeranno nuovi paradigmi?
#education #reading #literacy
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OK, I'm fine with articles trying to make reading hot and sexy, but looking at the super model reading that book... I'm not sure that's how you read a book.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/22/reading-books-fashion-brands-literary-clubs
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OK, I'm fine with articles trying to make reading hot and sexy, but looking at the super model reading that book... I'm not sure that's how you read a book.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/22/reading-books-fashion-brands-literary-clubs
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#Politics #literacy
An apt quote for today from Lady Blessington's "Conversations with Lord Byron"He [Byron] on all occasions professes a detestation of what he calls "cant"[hypocrisy & double-speak]; say it will banish from England all that is pure and good; and that while people are looking after the shadow they lose the substance of goodness; he says, that the best mode left for conquering it, is to expose it to ridicule, the only weapon, added he, that the English climate cannot rust.
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𝑵𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒌: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 - 𝑪𝒉 6: 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎'𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚
Full video, glossary, and more on the website.
Reading Guides on Waywords, one chapter and reflection video about every two weeks.
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/#democracy #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #constitution #commerceclause #empireofliberty
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𝑵𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒉𝒂𝒘𝒌: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 - 𝑪𝒉 6: 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎'𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚
Full video, glossary, and more on the website.
Reading Guides on Waywords, one chapter and reflection video about every two weeks.
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/#democracy #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #constitution #commerceclause #empireofliberty
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On Technological Literacy of Parents
Reading Time: 3 minutesYet again I see an article about children being banned from using mobile phones before they are thirteen years of age and once again I find myself asking, “but what if parents had the required digital literacy to help children and teens?” and “What if teachers had that digital literacy too?” Ireland has yet, again said that it would ban children younger from 13 from using smart phones. In my eyes this is a mistake because it fails to address the technological illiteracy of their parents, and children, handicapping them for life in the 21st century.
At the same time as children are banned from using 21st century devices is there a requirement for children to go to school within their own village? Is there a requirement for free transportation for all children anywhere? I ask because we ban children from using modern tech, but we don’t live in a society that allows introverts to connect out of school hours.
We live in a car dependent society that wants to ban smart phones, thus disconnecting children from their own peers. If children below a certain age are banned, then the children that do play with tech will be exposed to people older than themselves, because their peers are not online. This makes these children vulnerable.
Smart phones can contain books via kindle, Kobo, Audible and many other apps. They can also contain educational apps, as well as fitness apps and more. Smart phones are just a medium that is misunderstood by parents, teachers, and regulators. They ban them because they don’t have the vision to help such devices benefit children.
I am not a parent so I have opinions based on ideals. I am not a teacher, although I can provide insight into how children can use and benefit from technology.
When I hear that children use TikTok and Instagram and other apps, then I am disgusted. I am disgusted because these apps aren’t about connecting one on one. They’re about broadcasting, and children shouldn’t be broadcasting. I think that Seesmic was healthy, and that Twitter before influencer culture was healthy. I think that social media today is deeply, deeply toxic.
The toxicity comes from the venture capitalists, the executives of these companies, and others first passing the message that technology is toxic, before then creating addictive apps that even I have to avoid. Hexasort, and all of the apps that are pay to win, and fail to win before you watch an advert, a dozen times, are toxic, for adults, and children. These apps are the issue. Not children. That’s why media literacy within parent and teacher communities is vital.
In the age of the car smartphones provide children with a potentially useful third space, that doesn’t require parents to drive, or for children to live next to each other not to feel disconnected.
Smartphones should be a third space for parents, teachers, and schools to connect. In theory feature phones with specialist apps for schools, children and parents would provide a useful compromise.
The article on RTS discussues how the Irish are discussing “l’influence des réseaux” on children, and we all know that I have discussed this topic, focusing on its effect on adults, let alone children. For me smartphones are a tool. For me the medium is not the problem.
The problem is that before Myspace, Twitter, Facebook and other sites we had web forums with 30-50 users per community and these small, tight-knit communities were self-regulating therefore toxic behaviour was eliminated very fast, and there was no reward for it.
During the COVID pandemic normal people were thrown onto social media, without passing via social networks for. They saw being a binfluencer as the goal, rather than conversing. The result is that you have millions of people trying to binfluence, and following people that will never, ever chat with them. Social media went from being a network of friends of friends to being a cult of personalities.
In an age where social media is about the cult of personality, there is no value in social media because social media is no longer about enabling solitary people to socialise in a safe online environment. The toxic environment comes from the very parents who spend hours watching TikTok reels, and Binstagram reels. We went from a healthy tight knit community of friends of friends, to a noisy waste of time.
I see it as a waste of time, and I’ve been using social networks since the 90s online. Today connecting with people via social media is impossible, but connecting with people via Strava, Meetup and other sites is.
Instead of banning children from owning smartphones and using social media, we should design healthy communities that connect children, according to EU norms and regulations, Silicon Valley has proved time and again that it cannot be trusted.
Banning chiildren solves the issue for children, but it doesn’t address the issue for teenagers and adults, and to me we should be fixing social media, rather than banning age groups.
My point is simple. Smartphone apps use design patterns that are toxic for adults, and children, and we need to solve those toxic patterns so that every demographic may have a healthy relationship with mobile devices, Parents, teachers, and other adults all face the same toxic apps as children.
Children are not the only vulnerable people. We are all vulnerable.
#computers #digital #literacy #mobile #phones #technology -
On Technological Literacy of Parents
Reading Time: 3 minutesYet again I see an article about children being banned from using mobile phones before they are thirteen years of age and once again I find myself asking, “but what if parents had the required digital literacy to help children and teens?” and “What if teachers had that digital literacy too?” Ireland has yet, again said that it would ban children younger from 13 from using smart phones. In my eyes this is a mistake because it fails to address the technological illiteracy of their parents, and children, handicapping them for life in the 21st century.
At the same time as children are banned from using 21st century devices is there a requirement for children to go to school within their own village? Is there a requirement for free transportation for all children anywhere? I ask because we ban children from using modern tech, but we don’t live in a society that allows introverts to connect out of school hours.
We live in a car dependent society that wants to ban smart phones, thus disconnecting children from their own peers. If children below a certain age are banned, then the children that do play with tech will be exposed to people older than themselves, because their peers are not online. This makes these children vulnerable.
Smart phones can contain books via kindle, Kobo, Audible and many other apps. They can also contain educational apps, as well as fitness apps and more. Smart phones are just a medium that is misunderstood by parents, teachers, and regulators. They ban them because they don’t have the vision to help such devices benefit children.
I am not a parent so I have opinions based on ideals. I am not a teacher, although I can provide insight into how children can use and benefit from technology.
When I hear that children use TikTok and Instagram and other apps, then I am disgusted. I am disgusted because these apps aren’t about connecting one on one. They’re about broadcasting, and children shouldn’t be broadcasting. I think that Seesmic was healthy, and that Twitter before influencer culture was healthy. I think that social media today is deeply, deeply toxic.
The toxicity comes from the venture capitalists, the executives of these companies, and others first passing the message that technology is toxic, before then creating addictive apps that even I have to avoid. Hexasort, and all of the apps that are pay to win, and fail to win before you watch an advert, a dozen times, are toxic, for adults, and children. These apps are the issue. Not children. That’s why media literacy within parent and teacher communities is vital.
In the age of the car smartphones provide children with a potentially useful third space, that doesn’t require parents to drive, or for children to live next to each other not to feel disconnected.
Smartphones should be a third space for parents, teachers, and schools to connect. In theory feature phones with specialist apps for schools, children and parents would provide a useful compromise.
The article on RTS discussues how the Irish are discussing “l’influence des réseaux” on children, and we all know that I have discussed this topic, focusing on its effect on adults, let alone children. For me smartphones are a tool. For me the medium is not the problem.
The problem is that before Myspace, Twitter, Facebook and other sites we had web forums with 30-50 users per community and these small, tight-knit communities were self-regulating therefore toxic behaviour was eliminated very fast, and there was no reward for it.
During the COVID pandemic normal people were thrown onto social media, without passing via social networks for. They saw being a binfluencer as the goal, rather than conversing. The result is that you have millions of people trying to binfluence, and following people that will never, ever chat with them. Social media went from being a network of friends of friends to being a cult of personalities.
In an age where social media is about the cult of personality, there is no value in social media because social media is no longer about enabling solitary people to socialise in a safe online environment. The toxic environment comes from the very parents who spend hours watching TikTok reels, and Binstagram reels. We went from a healthy tight knit community of friends of friends, to a noisy waste of time.
I see it as a waste of time, and I’ve been using social networks since the 90s online. Today connecting with people via social media is impossible, but connecting with people via Strava, Meetup and other sites is.
Instead of banning children from owning smartphones and using social media, we should design healthy communities that connect children, according to EU norms and regulations, Silicon Valley has proved time and again that it cannot be trusted.
Banning chiildren solves the issue for children, but it doesn’t address the issue for teenagers and adults, and to me we should be fixing social media, rather than banning age groups.
My point is simple. Smartphone apps use design patterns that are toxic for adults, and children, and we need to solve those toxic patterns so that every demographic may have a healthy relationship with mobile devices, Parents, teachers, and other adults all face the same toxic apps as children.
Children are not the only vulnerable people. We are all vulnerable.
#computers #digital #literacy #mobile #phones #technology -
Every year 6 student to be given Katherine Rundell book for Christmas
By Ella CreamerMore than 800,000 copies of Impossible Creatures will be distributed to year 6 and P6 children through The Queen’s Christmas Present initiative
#Books #Culture #Childrensfantasybookschildrensandteens #QueenCamilla #Literacy #Children #TheGuardian #EllaCreamer
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Every year 6 student to be given Katherine Rundell book for Christmas
By Ella CreamerMore than 800,000 copies of Impossible Creatures will be distributed to year 6 and P6 children through The Queen’s Christmas Present initiative
#Books #Culture #Childrensfantasybookschildrensandteens #QueenCamilla #Literacy #Children #TheGuardian #EllaCreamer
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National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says
By Ella CreamerThe education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading
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National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says
By Ella CreamerThe education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading
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Book lovers, better sit down...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/post-literate-age-why-fewer-americans-are-reading-for-pleasure
Probably not a surprise for teachers, parents, & book lovers of a certain age, having spent much of life in the "pre-AI" age.
I'm concerned about what can happen in schools - and in homes too, not to mention book stores attention span, & print #media writ large.
People are not "reading for pleasure"! Not in the numbers we did, in our childhoods.
#reading #books #leisure #literacy #education #technology #learning #cognition #words -
Book lovers, better sit down...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/post-literate-age-why-fewer-americans-are-reading-for-pleasure
Probably not a surprise for teachers, parents, & book lovers of a certain age, having spent much of life in the "pre-AI" age.
I'm concerned about what can happen in schools - and in homes too, not to mention book stores attention span, & print #media writ large.
People are not "reading for pleasure"! Not in the numbers we did, in our childhoods.
#reading #books #leisure #literacy #education #technology #learning #cognition #words -
"As print literacy fades, our perception of truth is warping
The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely.
Every medium — print, TV, social media — has its own contract with the truth. As we move away from print literacy, we also move away from the conditions for objective truth that it sustains.
Before literacy, people’s perception of truth was grounded in 'lived experience,' tribal or individual. Facts were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in personal and collective memory. Collective memory was more durable than any individual’s, but it still bent toward what people needed to be true. With no external record to hold it fixed, the past could quietly reshape itself to fit the present.
Before literacy, people’s perception of truth was grounded in 'lived experience,' tribal or individual. Facts were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in personal and collective memory. Collective memory was more durable than any individual’s, but it still bent toward what people needed to be true. With no external record to hold it fixed, the past could quietly reshape itself to fit the present."
https://bigthink.com/history-society/as-print-literacy-fades-our-perception-of-truth-is-warping/
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"As print literacy fades, our perception of truth is warping
The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely.
Every medium — print, TV, social media — has its own contract with the truth. As we move away from print literacy, we also move away from the conditions for objective truth that it sustains.
Before literacy, people’s perception of truth was grounded in 'lived experience,' tribal or individual. Facts were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in personal and collective memory. Collective memory was more durable than any individual’s, but it still bent toward what people needed to be true. With no external record to hold it fixed, the past could quietly reshape itself to fit the present.
Before literacy, people’s perception of truth was grounded in 'lived experience,' tribal or individual. Facts were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in personal and collective memory. Collective memory was more durable than any individual’s, but it still bent toward what people needed to be true. With no external record to hold it fixed, the past could quietly reshape itself to fit the present."
https://bigthink.com/history-society/as-print-literacy-fades-our-perception-of-truth-is-warping/
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Literacy is more than reading, it’s a cultural practice where we read and share what we think about what we read.
I have people try to shame me for investing thought in anything that doesn’t translate into a flex, has some social or monetary reward.
It’s a disturbing pattern that makes the isolation of ageism even worse.
Weapons of Mass Perception
What the death of reading is doing to our brains.
#DW #DeutscheWelle #News #Capitalism #Media #Reading #Literacy #Culture #Psychology #SocialPsychology #EnvironmentalPsychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6t-BBQ8fUQ&t=629s -
Literacy is more than reading, it’s a cultural practice where we read and share what we think about what we read.
I have people try to shame me for investing thought in anything that doesn’t translate into a flex, has some social or monetary reward.
It’s a disturbing pattern that makes the isolation of ageism even worse.
Weapons of Mass Perception
What the death of reading is doing to our brains.
#DW #DeutscheWelle #News #Capitalism #Media #Reading #Literacy #Culture #Psychology #SocialPsychology #EnvironmentalPsychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6t-BBQ8fUQ&t=629s -
Sinking into the post-literate world.
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Sinking into the post-literate world.
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🎉 Ah, the wonders of modern technology! It turns out we need #JavaScript and #cookies for the revolutionary act of *reading*. Who knew that #literacy now hinges on browser settings? 🤦♂️📚
https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again #moderntechnology #browserissues #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Ah, the wonders of modern technology! It turns out we need #JavaScript and #cookies for the revolutionary act of *reading*. Who knew that #literacy now hinges on browser settings? 🤦♂️📚
https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again #moderntechnology #browserissues #HackerNews #ngated -
#literacy #politics #USPolitics okay party people, I want to make literacy rates in the US go up (like the stonks meme). What can I do to help make that happen?
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#literacy #politics #USPolitics okay party people, I want to make literacy rates in the US go up (like the stonks meme). What can I do to help make that happen?
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[The Atlantic-Gift Article]: The End Of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch
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[The Atlantic-Gift Article]: The End Of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch
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A woman feared the worst about her husband. Turns out his new passion was books.
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A woman feared the worst about her husband. Turns out his new passion was books.
