There are so many reasons why there is a literacy decline in the United States.
What I find most interesting about this fact, is that while so many are chanting for more technology, couldn't the emphasis and smuthering of technology be the exact reason why people are becoming so illiterate?
"There is no time that I can tell you in the last hundred years" ' where literacy and numeracy have declined." So this was not an issue for quite some time but now that technology is advanced and can be accessed anywhere, we are finding literacy and numeracy to be a problem. Interesting.
I am choosing not to comment about the section on immigration. That is obviously something that I cannot control and I do not feel like getting into politics. I can however, in my home and in my classroom, control the amount of time that is spent using technology.
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I know I know...I'm skeptical of the whole technology dominating our classrooms/our lives as well! I think in a few years once everyone gets in the groove of all these new technological advances, we can use them to make people actually become literate. For example, soooo many people have cell phones. It definitely took people awhile to get in that groove you know? Technology and the art of learning about it, I believe, is all about steps and progress.
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