📖 In a paper published in the Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique, Mélanie Toulhoat analyses the genesis, the development and the political and cultural stakes of adult literacy and rural popular education projects set up from 1975 onwards in Guinea-Bissau. 🇬🇼

🔓 Read it on #OpenAcess: https://oap.unige.ch/journals/rhca/article/view/toulhoat

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Just enrolled in my first course in yonks after getting a bit inspired about doing some work in adult literacy here in Tasmania 😀

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A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them? #AdultEdu #AdultEducation #AdultLiteracy #Literacy

Report in https://newsie.social/@ProPublica by Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark, with additional reporting by Nicole Santa Cruz, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/literacy-adult-education-united-states

Fir thaim thit's interestit in #Scots interface design & #AdultLiteracy in Scots @scotslanguage ran a project, Scots Warks, wi the Scots Wikipedia thit explores hou we best write Scots. There thochts on writin an a guide gaitherin thegither hunners o advice on writin in Scots. Ha a read an a watch!

https://www.scotslanguage.com/scots-warks

Featurin:
@ionafyfe @SusiBriggsAuthor Martin Travers @mornayoung @DrMDempster Gerda Stevenson @emmagraeauthor Antonia Uri @willimsinskald an monie mair!

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@0 About 5% of computer users have "advanced" literacy, defined as "Some navigation across pages and applications is required to solve the problem. The use of tools (e.g. a sort function) is required to make progress towards the solution. The task may involve multiple steps and operators. The goal of the problem may have to be defined by the respondent, and the criteria to be met may or may not be explicit"

Scheduling a meeting room, or determining "what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about sustainability" are examples of level-3 tasks.

A quarter of the adult population cannot use computers at all, 14% are at "below level-1" skills, and 30% can only perform very basic level-1 tasks, for a total of 70% of the population which has only very basic skills ... or less.

It's easy to over-estimate the general literacy and numeracy of the population, especially if you yourself are college-educated and work in and/or with information technology.

The United States performs one of the most comprehensive assessments of adult literacy. The key lesson for me is just how limited it is.

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

The findings correspond highly to a study of adult computer literacy amongst 20 countries by the OECD:

"Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264258051-en

Computer usability expert Jacob Nielsen has a discussion of this as well: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

I've discussed this as "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User", which both notes that much of the population has very basic skills, and that this also hampers the very small minority who do.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/

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