{"id":573897894,"date":"2025-03-25T21:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897894"},"modified":"2025-03-31T02:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:30:52","slug":"reading-about-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/03\/25\/reading-about-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading about literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on grading today &#8230; seemingly an evergreen phrase &#8230; and I ran across a paper where a student wrote &#8220;We live through a crisis of critical thinking.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I may wrap the class on that note &#8212; now, not at the end of the term &#8212; and spend all of my free time trying to remember the most direct route to get future classes to that same point. Some weeks ago I was trying to summarize our class conversation in the last few moments when I found, around the corner and down the hall, an opportunity to make just this point, and so I steered my riff that way. It was a great go home message, and it must have stuck with that student.<\/p>\n<p>For this paper, I&#8217;d asked the class to look a few years into the future and try to project the problems of misinformation and disinformation that we&#8217;ll be dealing with, and how we might best cope with, and try to overcome it. Another student wrote, &#8220;Media literacy will also be an essential tool &#8230; As consumers, we can play a part by using critical thinking skills &#8230; Schools and universiti3es should also teach media literacy and teach students how to discern fake news from real news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to read papers when the authors are trying to make these sorts of connections. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerbike.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I went for a little bike ride this afternoon. I quickly realized that I need to rest up a little more. Sinuses, or whatever I get, don&#8217;t always make for a good experience when you get your heart rate up and start breathing hard. So it was a brief ride. I got in my 16 miles, just to spin the legs and see the sites. Like the irrigation system to infinity. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar31.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the excavator at rest. I wonder what it gets used on around there. There&#8217;s not an obvious worksite, no scar in the earth. Just fields waiting to turn green. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar32.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s active this  year, I imagine it&#8217;ll be a sod crop. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, it&#8217;s just lovely pastureland, and these two paints enjoying a late lunch. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar33.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m going to go back to reading the last of those papers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on grading today &#8230; seemingly an evergreen phrase &#8230; and I ran across a paper where a student wrote &#8220;We live through a crisis of critical thinking.&#8221; I may wrap the class on that note &#8212; now, not at the end of the term &#8212; and spend all of my free time trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897895,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897894\/revisions\/573897895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}