After listening to the lecture and reading through the articles I believe it is important to know and understand how times have changed when speaking about literate people and students. As stated through the material a literate person as a definition has become much more in-depth and technical compared to the meaning before technology started to play such a major role in society. The different ares of literacy spoken about each have their own specific value when thinking about a modern day literate person. Information literacy, media literacy and computer are three main types that were brought up through the topic as well as some other literacy areas.
Although each individual section of literacy is important in its own right, I believe that in order to be completely literate and successful in the constantly changing world a student, or person must have a understanding, and skill set through every section in order to be a completely literate person. Having an understanding on how to process information from different media sources, or different computer sources is becoming more important every year. You only have to look at how SLU itself is running many of its notification programs. We have SLU mail run through Google's Gmail, our notifications for packages comes through online, class registration, class scheduling, and other apoointment have all moved to be online. If students are not prepared, and if employees are not brough up to date with this literacy change it can cost them many job opporunities.
In addition to these thoughts I think that the articles given as reading assignments set out the definitions and also cover all the standards and information for each section of literacy with great depth.
In addition to that, the video shows why the articles are important. The statistics given throughout the video are firstly very interesting, but also are a wake up call for people who do not realize how important digital literacy is in today's world.
In conclusion, the literacy fluency articles given are an intersting read and are very relevant to today's world. And after reading through the articles it is now easy to see why it will be important for anybody who is not up to speed with the digital literacy world to put forth the effort to catch up and keep moving forward with the rest of the world.
Christian Salecich
I agree with you that in order to be considered literate in the 21st century, a person must be information literate, media literate, and computer literate. In order to participate in this class, students must focus on their computer skills, information processing skills, and practice using many different applications of media. And, like you said, in order to be a student at Saint Louis University, it helps if a student is competent in computer skills in order to communicate with classmates and professors as well as to sign up for classes and receive important information from the school.
ReplyDeleteChristian, I agree with you that individuals must have an understanding and skills for all sections for them to be completely literate. I also agree with what you said about being a student at SLU, i believe computer skills are important with being a college student in general.
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