literacy

Review of “A is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age”, Barry Sanders

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look’d upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day …Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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Understanding our Media Experiences: Towards a Media Literacy Curriculum

As education concerns itself with an understanding of the world and ourselves, it must necessarily also grapple with the sources of influence and representations of reality thatwe are constantly exposed to. With the invasion of the mass media, particularly, it has become a crucial function of education to help children pay attention to the influences they imbibe and the representations they internalize.

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