Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA25721; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 10:10:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 10:10:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <01BD07AE.83A89790@ppp-21.ts-10.nyc.idt.net> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Susan O'Connor" <bplsko@idt.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:110] RE: Information Literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: RO ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD07AE.83A89790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Good morning Christopher: Ms. Deborah Ruth Guerra, our former education coordinator and I have had = many long discussions about what is literacy. At some point our working = definition is that literacy is a form of currency (as in money in that = money enables us to obtain physical and mental comfort and passport to = the larger world). Literacy is a means to an end, the end is defined by = the traveller. So if we talk about getting a good job and more pay, = literacy can be defined by the parameters necessary to do that job-thus = a cook must know their way around the kitchen-this literacy will enable = them to further their goals. Thus information literacy is a must for a person in the year 1997, = because information literacy is how people navigate a world crowded with = input. I hope this makes some sense on a Saturday morning.=20 Regards, Susan Susan K. O'Connor Literacy Program Manager Brooklyn Public Library 718-780-7819 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hopey [SMTP:hopey@literacy.upenn.edu] Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 1:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:109] Information Literacy=20 This is an interesting discussion and I am not sure what I think = anymore. When I first started in this business of literacy I was a purist.=20 Literacy was about reading and writing and the misuse of the word really = drove me crazy. I looked at literacy in a "technical sense" and believed = that at some point there was a demarcation between being literate and "illiterate" (i.e. reading and writing). Perhaps I thought this was = true only because of my inexperience and what others had told me in formal = settings such as college. However, my thinking on this "misuse" has begun to = change as a I spend more time working in and thinking about literacy and technology. I now view literacy as more of a moving target and thus I = have become more open to the "technical" definition. 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