• Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    some kind of literacy crash course…

    I love how today actual literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks about teaching readimg and writing (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s probably 800 of these fake literacies floating around.

    Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and perhaps understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.

    It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.

    Why be able to read and consult a dictionary when I can just consult AI or social media to explain it to my borderline-illiterate brain?

    DON'T LOOK

    Obligatory /s for the final paragraph