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Adolescent Literacy: An Imperative | Raising Awareness and Finding Solutions for the Ad... - 0 views

  • are our schools meeting this demand? In short, no. Or at least, not well enough. As a country we have devoted many resources to early childhood education initiatives that teach children to read. But once students possess these basic skills, they must be taught to interpret the information they read, to think critically, to write clearly, and to communicate effectively. Unfortunately, middle and high school students are not meeting state and national standards for basic reading proficiency, let alone developing higher literacy skills. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 38% of twelfth graders read at or above the proficient level.
  • Promoting adolescent literacy cannot be limited to reading and writing. To be highly literate in our culture involves mastering many different types of literacy- digital, financial, health, media, etc. If a student graduates high school able to read and write, but is unable to use a computer, we would consider their functional literacy limited. Yes, this is an oversimplification, but it serves to illustrate this point: literacy is defined and influenced by cultural and societal standards. And in a consumerist society such as ours, our jobs dictate many of those standards. These jobs demand digital literacy.
parodyband

Technology, The Root of Depression and Loneliness? | Teen Opinion Essay - 0 views

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    technology can foster lives as if they were cocoons and became butterflies making them aware that they go out their with the ample amount of social skills provided for them. What if there was no technology, there has to be at least one thing that keeps you going through the day, for me it's my cell phone and without that communication to others would be gone and I'm sure that it is the same for a lot of other people. So technology is not always bad it can help our modern day society and our social skills in more way then one.
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