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There are about thirty recognized kinds of literacy:
- About two thirds of the time literacy is mentioned
it means reading/writing.
- Basic, Computer, and Information Literacy and Numeracy are discussed the most.
- Philosophical and Medical Literacy are discussed the least.
- The concept of ICT means that many of these literacies overlap.
ICT stands for Information, Computer, and Technology literacy.
- All of these kinds of literacy are important.
It seems that...
- Seven of them are 'new' kinds of literacy: Digital, Information,
Musical, Orality, Technological, Computer, and Visual.
- Five of them are Textual literacy based: (L)
- Five of them are for practical living (P)
- Seven of them are subject based (S)
- Two of them are based on modern political correctness (C)
Source: Kinds of Literacy, by Jon Grover
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KindsOfLiteracy
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