Chapter 6: Literacy

Recently, I took a class on Urban Education and Reading Problems in Secondary edition. Both classes focused on literacy and particularly on cultural literacy. I am intrigued by both the literacy gap, as well as this concept of cultural literacy. In some ways, literacy actually relates to encoding, as well as code breaking. Similar to real code breaking, each code in this cultural relationship is 100% unique per individual--a representation of the memories, concepts, symbols, meanings, and associations that are important and meaningful to the person making the association. Literacy in some ways a social skills--people use literacy to relate to one another. As the gap widens and people are becoming less literate and even culturally literate, they are less able to relate to other people or even ideas/symbols in a meaningful well--and thus, less likely again to be a viable candidate in today's job market. Surprisingly, literacy based problem solving games are on the rise, just as demonstrated in the book in Figure 6.

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