Scribner & Cole Reading

What implications does this have on schooling and literacy?

After reading Scribner and Cole it raises question about literacy and where else can you acquired literacy beside school. The implications it have on schooling is literacy can be taught at any place other than school such as by a tutor or at a church. This raises debate whether literacy can continue in a educational system where student use current technologies to learn new skill of literacy in the 21st century.

I believe that different institution and different society will view literacy differently. The use of literacy goes beyond reading and writing but understanding the concept and material. How we perceive literacy skill is important in relation to learning, reading, thinking, and higher education. I also don't think that people who are abstract thinker have better literacy skills. Literacy skills for me is what you were taught and how much you understand the material where you are able to explain and even teach the material. When writing is use in perspective of literacy it is important that we incorporate new technologies with the old in a way where learning is still relevant to literacy. For the most part I think literacy is important in schooling as well as other places outside of school. Being in school teaches us new strategies and allow us to think outside the box on what the world is really like. By attending school it give us a different perspective of the outside world and the knowledge we learn can be incorporated in the real world. Schooling is very important in literacy but we must recognize that because we score low on certain areas does not mean we are incapable in other task.