Lesson 1 And 2 Flashcards
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Meaning of UNESCO
United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural organization
is a set of skills that include the ability to read with comprehension and write simple messages.
Literacy
involves the ability to use numbers. and perform the most basic mathematical functions.
Numeracy
-It is fully essential to social and human development in its ability to transform lives
UNESCO 2016
- Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation for lifelong learning.
UNESCO 2016
Beyond basic literacy is a category called
functional literacy
- Someone who can engage in all the activities in which basic literacy is required for the effective functioning of his or her group and community and also for enabling him or her to continue to use reading, writing, and calculation for his or her own and the community’s development.
Functionally Literate person
- Pertains to wards and numbers on a page or screen it is the ability to read and write and to use the information and knowledge found an a pad or Screen
Basic & Functional Literacy
- Digital Technologies and the Internet have redefined the nature of reading and writing technology
Literacy 21st century
concepts of Literacy has Expanded.
Literacy 21st century
- The benchmarks for professional success have also changed. Graduates are not only expected to discharge routine skills in the assembly line or in an office setting.
Literacy Workplace
New Set of Literacies: 2 Major Categories
1 Civil Literacies
2 Digital Age literacies
about the skills and competencies necessary to engage with communities and societies as citizens of democracy
Civil Literacies
- Ensemble of the skills and knowledge. necessary to nagvigate the internet & the ever-expanding world of digital technology
Digital Age Literacies
Digital Way of Life
1 National Response to the Global Pandemic
2 Agriculture
3 Basic Education
4 Tertiary Education.
5 Parenting
6 Heritage & Arts Management.
- It covers both the cognitive skills that are needed in navigating the digital. environment - making our daily lives and technical ability to use digital equipment in its various forms
Digital Age Literacies”
-Span the use of all technology and content that are created through digital technology
Digital Age literacies
• Digital sources are put to the service of a community.
Digital Age Literate Citizen
• Makes us of digital technologies and equipment wisely, Productively, and positively
Digital Age literate citizen
Category of Digital Literacy
• Computer literacy
• Visual literacy
•Technological literacy
• News literacy
involves knowing how to use the computer independently-bot its software and hardware components.
Computer literacy
individual can access, manage, synthesize, access, evaluate create and disseminate information using the computer.
A computer Literate
Also about the use of computer and emerging technologies
Technological Literacy
is someone who appreciates & understands the role of technology in society, how it shapes by it.
A Technologically Literate Person