#basic reading skills

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"Alex do you assume everyone that isnt you is an idiot" well I have been seldom proven wrong on this

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Literacy in a Digital World.

On 10 September 2017, the Literacy Movement Organization (LMO), under the Iranian Ministry of Education, and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO jointly organized a national meeting to celebrate International Literacy Day (ILD) under the theme of “Literacy in a Digital World”. The celebration was hosted by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran.

Iran celebrates International Literacy Day

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The centrality of literacy in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Literacy is a key component of the fundamental right to education and a critical foundation for independent learning.

As a major driver of socioeconomic transformation, it is also critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Literacy and numeracy have to play an essential role in building more peaceful, just, inclusive and sustainable societies and in addressing global challenges. These include climate change and natural disasters, crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, the changing nature of work due to digitalization and the advent of new technologies, rapid demographic change, as well as conflict and war.

The Education 2030 Agenda (SDG4), which sets out a new vision for education and lifelong learning, dedicates a specific target (4.6) to youth and adult literacy, namely to ‘ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy’. While literacy and numeracy play important roles across all age groups, there is an urgent need for transformative action to effectively address global sustainability challenges specifically related to youth and adult literacy and learning.

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Formal or non-formal literacy programmes can take place in physical and/or virtual environments.

Altogether, we can observe a growing recognition of literacy and numeracy — together with other essential skills and transferable competences — as integral elements of other learning, education and training. There is a growing awareness that the literacy challenge must be met with an approach that includes all subsectors and all age groups. This requires the development of institutionalized learning systems which need to offer flexible learning opportunities that support learning at all stages of a person’s life and in a range of diverse settings, modalities and spaces. National qualifications frameworks (NQFs) and operational systems for the recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of non-formally or informally acquired learning outcomes can help to overcome the still-prevalent compartmentalization of education subsystems and enable out-of-school populations to obtain recognized certificates and qualifications. Available evidence suggests a wide variety of venues and places where people can learn and develop their literacy, numeracy, language, digital and other competences. In general, there is limited recognition of out-of-school literacy and numeracy practices and a lack of awareness of literacy practices, languages and local knowledges used in informal learning spaces. The diverse learning spaces in which indigenous and/or (inter)generational learning activities take place range from neighbourhood spaces to workplaces, marketplaces, religious spaces and above all, the home. While some of these spaces are falling out of use, other informal intergenerational spaces are growing in popularity and new spaces are being created. Formal or non-formal literacy programmes can take place in physical and/or virtual environments and be found in diverse contexts (i.e., urban or rural) and settings such as at home, at school, at the workplace, in public, private and religious places, in adult and community learning centres, (mobile) libraries, museums, prisons, and, of course, in digital environments. Many literacy programmes use various learning spaces in complementary ways, or encourage their learners to expand their literacy development activities beyond scheduled classes and classroom spaces. The way how different literacy programmes have creatively and productively used the potential of literate environments outside of classrooms has been studied in contexts of home environments, libraries, prisons and digital environments. Another recent research examined the roles that Community Learning Centres (CLCs) and other community-based learning institutions can play as learning spaces to enable participation of vulnerable and excluded groups struggling to overcome various barriers to learning. Such institutionalized forms of teaching and learning offer opportunities for literacy and livelihood skills training, health and citizenship promotion, basic education, and vocational training, in line with the principle of lifelong learning, and in the context of local communities. The analysis concludes that CLCs and other community-based institutions can be developed as cornerstones to local infrastructure because they offer a one-stop shop for a variety of services to all target groups on the lifelong learning continuum and across sectors. Therefore, they can improve access to literacy and increase levels of inclusion and participation, in particular among the (most) difficult to reach.

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Literacy investment essential for COVID-19 recovery.

On International Literacy Day 2021, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning calls on the international community to increase funding and political will in order to ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults achieve literacy and numeracy, as enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Literacy investment essential for COVID-19 recovery

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Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces.

Since 1967, International Literacy Day (ILD) celebrations have taken place annually around the world to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more literate and sustainable society. Despite progress made, literacy challenges persist with 771 million illiterate people around the world, most of whom women, who still lack basic reading and writing skills and are faced with increased vulnerability.

Rapidly changing global context took a new meaning over the past years, hampering the progress of global literary efforts. In the aftermath of the pandemic, nearly 24 million learners might never return to formal education, out of which, 11 million are projected to be girls and young women. To ensure no one is left behind, we need to enrich and transform the existing learning spaces through an integrated approach and enable literacy learning in the perspective of lifelong learning.

The International Literacy Day 2022 will be celebrated worldwide under the theme, "Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces” and will be an opportunity to rethink the fundamental importance of literacy learning spaces to build resilience and ensure quality, equitable, and inclusive education for all.

At the global level, a two-day hybrid international event will be organized on 8 and 9 September 2022, in Côte d’Ivoire. The International Literacy Day global celebration lies at the heart of regional, country and local levels. As such, this year's outstanding programmes and literacy practices will be announced through the 2022 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes award ceremony.  

[postsatire]

Since god knows when, the states that are most dependent on federal aid are the states most likely to return “smaller government” candidates to Washington.

And you think the problem is “Liberalism Doesn’t Work”?

Don’t worry. California will continue to carry the can for your shitty, fucked-up, conservative red states. You know, the way you wouldn’t.

You’re welcome.