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-Prose literacy: skills needed to understand and use information from texts.

-Document literacy: skills required to locate and use information contained in various formats.

-Quantitative literacy: skills required to apply arithmetic operations to numbers embedded in printed materials.

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The middle of the pack on the quantitative and document literacy assessment, behind Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.

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Quality education in developed countries?

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Quality education in developed countries?

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Glen Park:

-Significantly higher scores on math EQAO (80% got ¾) than on reading (53%) or writing (57%)

-Forest Hill got 100% across the board

-Cottingham Junior Public School (“”)

-Avondale alternative school (“”)

-Arbor Glen Public school (“”)

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According to Canadian Council on Learning

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According to Canadian Council on Learning

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learning to read and write (text and numbers), reading and writing to learn, and developing these skills and using them effectively for meeting basic needs.

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-42% of Canadian adults between the ages

of 16 and 65 have low literacy skills.

-55% of working age adults in Canada estimated to have less than adequate health literacy skills.

-88% of adults over the age of 65 appear to be in this situation.

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According to a study published

by the Oxford Internet Institute

at University of Oxford, global

literacy rate is 82%. While the

literacy rate for men is 87%,

the rate for women is 77%

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-What is true/untrue

-Social Media

-Right and wrong

-Morality(?)

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-exposure to different realities (fiction or non-fiction)

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-Critical thinking

-rationality

-how does this relate to life/the world around me?

-not regurgitating facts

-challenge your ideas

-using/applying what you read

-LEARNING PEOPLE'S STORIES

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-change your points of view

-new texts = new information

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-discussions in class

-forming your own ideas

-not repeating what others say

-ANALYZING

-Motivations of authors, etc.

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-equality

-Standardized Testing

-EQAO

-Literacy Test

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-what is the standard?

-how do they relate?

-different socio-economic backgrounds/cities

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-Reading/Writing/Media Literacy are different everywhere

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-building block to success

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-exposure to other points of view

-different kinds of texts

-digital (access to the internet)

-empathizing

-Expand your vocabulary

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What is literacy?