Today, the Rotary Club of Albany New York visited The Red Book Shelf, supporting their literacy program by cleaning and mending donated books. Our club supports both local and international efforts in health, nutrition and education. #RotaryInternational #peopleofaction #books #literacy
Comics have always been a great way to get kids reading for enjoyment so not surprised by this.
#BD #bandedessinee #comics #comicbooks #reading #literacy #graphicstorytelling #graphicart
Can book fans turn the page on decline in reading?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvme19g7gpo
#Books #Reading #Libraries #Literacy #Plymouth #Devon #BookFairies
"It's the new Wild West," says one English teacher about the use of AI in education. Around 40 percent of America's teachers use the technology in the classroom, according to a 2023-2024 survey. @USAToday walks us through the good and the bad sides of artificial intelligence when it comes to the literacy skills of the next generation.
Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library
The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.
How very dare they do this to Dolly?
#News #Indiana #DollyParton #ImaginationLibrary #Books #Reading #Literacy #MAGA
Something to bear in mind about the leopards eating people's faces is that 21% of American adults are illiterate, and 54% have below sixth grade #literacy. #LeopardsAteMyFace
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
The 14 year old is doing research on literacy rates in the US and has found that some info has been scrubbed from the .gov sites. Which, of course, isn't a surprise, but the news from earlier just became very real for him. The kid just wants to learn about literacy rates and he can hardly do that. I had to tell him to be careful about anything he finds on a .gov site right now, it may not be true. How fucking crazy is that? Two weeks ago I wouldn't have said that.
"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."
"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.
Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."
"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:
潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]
#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.
Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."
Ref: https://inf.news/en/history/08fbe530527e724eeeee5320bff4f3b9.html
#AsianMastodon #China #Gaginang #ChineseRevolutionaries #ChineseImperialEra #TeochewHistory #ChineseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #HistoryOfChina #LearnHistory #TootSEA #ChineseScholars #TeochewRoots
13-years ago!
"But beyond that, I believe it’s also resulted in a collective inability to discern nuance, interpret social cues, take a joke. Somewhere in between all the LOL’s and J/K’s, we’ve lost our sense of humor."
#culture #humor #intelligence #literacy #thinking
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/02/26/are-people-getting-dumber/people-are-getting-dumber-and-its-no-joke
Education research shows that being forced to precisely follow a curriculum harms teachers and students.
#Teachers, have you felt pressured to stick to a specific curriculum?
A #literacy #education scholar explores why some schools still enforce rigid curricula: https://theconversation.com/why-being-forced-to-precisely-follow-a-curriculum-harms-teachers-and-students-235848 #learning #autonomy
Philadelphia schools are adopting a new K-8 literacy curriculum, Expeditionary Learning, focused on the "science of reading." It combines structured phonics with nonfiction texts to build both word knowledge and world knowledge. https://buff.ly/3CIHV5r
#literacy #learning #education #science #scienceofreading #phonics
i saw a post a little while ago that was so shocking I had to look into it further. These stats on literacy are really disturbing.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023
Financial Literacy: How to manage your finances, invest, and achieve financial independence? 💰📊 #Finance #Investments #Budgeting #Literacy. Understanding financial basics will help you build a stable future!
"The 'science of reading' is a body of knowledge referring to how students learn to sound out words, learn vocabulary, and read increasingly sophisticated texts. More teachers are being encouraged to use evidence-based practices aligned to this research, and and in some cases, are required to use or discard certain teaching approaches."
But Education Week reports that teachers and experts continue to debate the approach: https://flip.it/oMyAvf
I still remember the day I learned to spell my own name. I was about two or three and was wearing my blue jean suit. It had a matching pair of pants and a button up jacket with embroidered flowers on the pockets. It wasn't made of denim but polyester since this was the early 70s and polyester was king. I was in the car with my mom and grandmother and we were going to Kmart.
I was able to read books by the time I was four.
Anyone else remember when they first learned to spell their name?
#memory #memories #Childhood #literacy
The Words That Remain, by Stenio Gardel (trans by Bruna Lobato)
You are a 70 year old Brazilian blue collar worker, looking back at a life lived mostly in the closet, after falling so in love as a teen that you and your lover said it loud; you were separated forever, but not before he wrote you a letter, which you never read because you were, and still are, illiterate.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
@bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #lgbtq #literacy #brazil #books
The man is going for the #librarians vote.
>This veep likes books! Governor Tim Walz put a Little Free Library in the Minnesota capitol. https://lithub.com/this-veep-likes-books-governor-tim-walz-put-a-little-free-library-in-the-minnesota-capitol/
Audiobooks for Kids Give Them a Creative Boost #books #audiobooks #reading #literacy #creativity #imagination #ADHD https://buff.ly/46xpo78
From banning books in the #US to bombing book printers in #Ukraine and libraries in #Gaza : books, literacy and independent thinking is the enemy of those seeking absolute power.
The Ukrainians keep fighting.
‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house.
14 years old, but still useful:
Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies
#attention #socialmedia #literacy #edutech
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies
Teaching Students to Evaluate Digital Sources
A cry for help!
I'm looking for UK education people to follow, specifically those involved in primary teaching. Any hashtag or account recs? Are there any UK edu instances?
#ukeducation #ukedchat #ukteachers #primary #ks1 #ks2 #literacy
The American Library Association has released new data about book bans in the United States. The numbers shattered last year's records.
This page has a lot more explanation of what's happening, more images to share, and ways you can get involved.
https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/2022-book-bans/
h/t @elaterite
#BookBans #Books #Libraries #FreeSpeech #Literacy #History #Histodon
