#literacy teaching

[internationalliteracyday]

Promote literacy to foster mutual understanding and peace in multilingual societies.

To examine major challenges and effective policies, the International Literacy Day 2024 global celebration will be guided by the following key questions:

How can literacy-related policies be enhanced for the better integration of ‘literacy teaching and learning’ and ‘education for mutual understanding and peace’? How can policies respond to the question of which language to be literate in, how, and for what purpose?

What are the main factors that make literacy programmes and practices more relevant and effective to foster mutual understanding and peace in multilingual contexts? What lessons can be learned from existing fast language-based, multilingual (FLB-ML) approaches to literacy development? How can the effectiveness of such approaches be measured?

How can an ecosystem and culture of lifelong learning be enriched to promote literacy to foster mutual understanding and peace in multilingual societies? What resources do we need? Who are the actors, and how should they be involved?

[birdsareblooming]

"we teach media literacy in schools yall just dont pay attention" did yall forget that the american school system sucks. yeah they sure TRY. they do it badly though

[brujahinaskirt]

arthur is rude to that one sex worker because the guys are fucking around as they oughtn't be and he actively wants the source of their distraction to go away. that is how he operates through the entire game: deliberate, utilitarian intimidation and strategic unpleasantness to achieve a goal. it is an early game commentary on arthur meant to position him as a big dog that barks. it is not a commentary on his views about women which are clarified many times afterward. you guys realize that right

[bonsai-babies]

Okay, it's the second time I see someone saying

"If Sam had seen Axel being BEATEN in the early seasons she would've called it a sob story and walked away"

Allow me to refresh people's biased minds with the two canon events that come to mind:

Sam immediately knew something was wrong with Robby's home life and immediately took action telling it to her parents.

Sam immediately broke up with a popular guy after seeing the way he treated Miguel and his friends.

Now, why did Sam take a different approach to Tory? CONTEXT. Sam and Tory had been antagonizing each other, and every mistake or absurd violent reaction that Tory ever had is always justified by "oh, but her tragic home life". Tragic past and home life doesn't give anybody a free pass to act like that. That's what she meant!

The fact that I have to explain it is pathetic. And of course people who dislike her won't care they just love to grasp at straws to attack her.

Sam is not a sociopath who ignores and doesn't care about suffering. In what UNIVERSE would that girl see that level of violence and be snob about it?!

You know who actually saw that level of violence AND CHEERED IT ON?? TORY NICHOLS.

Yeah, the same one you guys coddle. She cheered Hawk on while she broke an immobilized KID's arm while he BEGGED to be let go!!

She was there when the Cobra Kai's took Bert, one of the smallest kids, and beat him and throw him through a FUCKING WINDOW.

She attacked Sam while she was visibly distraught and NOT FIGHTING BACK. She just wanted to cause pain.

Now I don't see ANYBODY ever calling her on these acts of violence and ruthlessness. She didn't just WITNESSED those acts, she was the aggressor. But Sam is the villain?!!! Get a fucking grip or grow some sense while you're at it.

Sam would never be a snob about people's suffering, she only ever criticized people using it as an argument to excuse their behavior. She was ALWAYS empathetic and kind. Even when she wasn't brave enough to take a stand (which changed pretty fast).

Now please delete this take for the repertoire, it'll be less embarrassing for all of you who insist upon it.

[xray-vex]

hey remember when the OFMD s2 teaser video dropped and there were people who were somehow CONVINCED that Stede was referring to Izzy when he said "I don't care what any of you say, he's actually a good guy" and not, y'know, Ed, whom they were literally just talking about in this scene?

like what the hell was that about

[san-sebastienne]

IT’S NOT ABOUT GLORY, IT’S ABOUT BELONGING TO SOMETHING.

LITERALLY FUCK EVERY PERSON WHO’S EVER WRITTEN IZZY AS A HEARTLESS SHREW WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT BLACKBEARD’S REPUTATION

S MY DRAMATIC EYELINER D

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

In 208, we see Ed reading Stede’s letter. Previously, in 109, we see Ed sign his name with an X. Some think these two ideas conflict. I don’t think they do. Literacy is a spectrum. It’s possible to be able to at least read to some degree, but not write almost at all.

In children, reading usually occurs first, writing follows. It’s possible Ed learned some reading skills from his mother, or picked up some reading on the hop. He’s very clever. We know also there was a cut scene confirmed by Damien Gerard (Father Teach). It involved Ed and his father in which Ed is told to stop with his ‘stories’ and get out into the real world. Ed and Stede’s characterisations are very closely aligned in more ways than we imagine. I mean, there is a reason Ed is so excited about all of Stede’s books.

The presumption that Ed is entirely illiterate bothers me, actually; and I do think there is sometimes an unconscious racial bias here. Ed’s captained ships for years extremely successfully. I refuse to believe Ed doesn’t have some degree of literacy in order to read maps. Unless we think Izzy’s reading things to him! Is Izzy literate? He seems to be able to read ‘For the New Unicorn’. He clearly knows what it says because he reads it a second time and smiles. Are we suggesting Izzy can read and Ed cannot? If so, why?

Second, Ed’s signing the Act of Grace with an X, doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to write his name. Many people didn’t like to write their names clearly for fear of forgery, especially someone with Ed’s notoriety. Can you imagine what could be done with the genuine signature of Edward Teach, Blackbeard?

Plus, I really like how the X continues to feed into the theme of ‘Who is Ed?’ What should his signature say? Ed Teach? How we’re spelling that? Teach? Thache? Or is it Edward? Captain? Blackbeard? Blackie? Jeff? The Kraken?? Seriously, though. Ed goes by a number of pseudonyms. His identity is unmoored. X covers them all. Take your pick. As Mary says about her chosen artist moniker, ‘Adds an air of mystery.’ Ed’s all about the art of fuckery. Keep them on their toes.

The X can also be denied at a later date. It’s signing your name, but not signing your name. The weight of legality is on the witnesses here, which is undeniably strong, but it might still allow some wriggle room. Who knows. Ed’s canny. He’s not going to hand over his identity fully on a legal document if he doesn’t have to. He’s still trying to hand his identity to himself. It’s also possible Ed is playing into the ‘illiterate man of colour’ presumption to empower himself and not give away his entire personhood here.

He might not be a prolific letter-writer, but trust me: Edward Teach knows how to write ‘Edward Teach’ (born on a beach). He just won’t be forced to.

[interiorlulus]

The day people understand that the themes & tropes of a story are chosen by the writer to suit its specific narrative needs and not necessarily bc they are Universal Truths Unchallenged is the day I will be set free.

[internationalliteracyday]

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[thesovereignchimera]

My weirdo Dad just came up to me and said Gene Roddenberry's vision for the Borg was 'Leftist Communism.'

WHAT.

[doublel27]

We’ve really lost the art of inferential storytelling huh?

I mean not actually the storytelling. The people telling the stories are still expecting it of their audience. But like people picking up on the inferential messaging and use of character action instead of dialogue that exists within the story is getting smaller and smaller.

[doctor-veritas-ratio]

What do you think about Aventurine?

You like him, right?~

Why did you ask me as an anon? I know it's you gambler, I'm not dumb.

[juniperandmoonlight]

Read an infuriating post from a family member on Facebook earlier about why he voted the way he did. It was well written, you could tell he was being completely reasonable and felt he had made a well thought out choice, but the whole thing was based on massive misunderstandings about how the economy and the government actually operate. He also lamented the fact that many of his liberal friends have been taken in by the obviously "liberal media", and that the court cases and convictions have been basically pushed in favor of the liberal political agenda and aren't based on actual criminal actions.

The worst part was when he acknowledged that the losers here are things like women's right and lgbt+ issues, and that that is "sad" but that deregulation is more important. He "hopes" that people will be understanding and realize that not everyone on the other side is supportive of hate. All I could see was someone who profoundly misunderstands our national systems and who is exactly like the German citizens in the 30s who admitted that the government's hate speech and plans were extreme but you know, we just need those economic gains. "It's too bad that women are probably going to lose their bodily autonomy but at least the FDA won't be stopping us from taking new age untested cures anymore" is a pretty depressing take.

[tevanbuckley]

really curious how we're actually supposed to criticise ofmd without someone interpreting it in the most bad faith way imaginable. If you criticise the show because it made you feel sad and you don't like that then you're a baby who needs to grow up. But if you try and explain the ways you think it's narratively flawed, then you're a media illiterate clown who isn't big brained enough to understand what good writing is (and also a baby who's obviously actually just sad their blorbo died).

[bvshboy]

not to be controversial, but I'm starting to hate the math defenders on this app, like some people take it weirdly personally if you say you hate math, and I know this is a hard pill to swallow if you were praised as a child, but it's literally not about you

[lightbluetown]

shoutout to this scene btw. such a casual and silly depiction of how perfectly in sync stede and ed are. looking at the act of grace and immediately going "nope, can't be arsed with that!" openly and proudly. talking about the "small text with tricks" and need to "review" it as if they're signing some boring work document and not giving their lives away to the king of england

and then there's ANOTHER PAGE? with even SMALLER text?! even stede, famously obsessed with reading, can't help but groan! yuck!! and then of course he asks this iconic question, which is so sincere but goofy in a way only stede can manage, and ed doesn't even react to it:

such a cute, mundane scene in a very much not-mundane situation. dying to see more stuff like this in s3 pretty please