Quotes of: Literacy Keyword

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is ...

Keanu Reeves

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a...

Kofi Annan

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Dennis Potter

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

A Primer of Visual Literacy: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

John Battelle

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimenta...

Hugh Mackay

Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.

Love

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Howard Rheingold

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there’s a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won’t work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs an...

Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

Art is literacy of the heart.

Elliot Eisner

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I woul...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better contro...

Life

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

C. Everett Koop

Creativity is as important as literacy

Ken Robinson

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Marshall McLuhan