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  • Essay / Personal Philosophy of Literacy - 1455

    It is our duty to students to provide them with the skills necessary to be literate in an increasingly complex world. The skills we teach must provide a foundation not only for reading and writing, but also for literacy in media, science, art, and history. We are teaching future generations the skills they will need to grow and thrive in their time, not ours, and so we must prepare them for the next 100 years, where things will grow and change in ways we never could. never predict. This is why literacy is important, and why it is even more important that we inform students' sensitivities and their ability to make informed decisions based on the available facts. Perkins (2009) suggests that literacy is essential for developing lifelong learning skills. It must therefore be argued that developing these “literacy” skills at a young age will lead to more successful learning throughout life. It has never been our duty to predict the future, but simply to equip students with the tools necessary to work best in the