Nursing, Healthcare Informatics and Technology 2006

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Monday, February 13, 2006

Thoughteracy for All

A colleague sent me this "thoughtful article" on literacy. Interesting for educators to ponder.

Such limited and primarily alphabet-based definitions of literacy may have been appropriate, and perhaps even sufficient, until the emergence of sophisticated tools of information and communications technologies, such as the computer, cell phone, video cameras, text scanners and text-to-speech converters, and voice recognition and language translation technologies. These new and versatile technologies will slowly but surely initially diminish and then eventually altogether do away with peoples’ reliance on soon to be obsolete skills such as reading and writing.

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