Literacy

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Literacy.

If you had to use Egyptian hieroglyphs, there were hundreds of them.

And only the scholars and so on could understand them.

Day, a Cambridge or was a Cambridge professor and the treatment that was dealt to him during and actually post-resignation, which ultimately resulted was too much of a mental anxiety for him and resulted in him taking his life, unfortunately, versus, you know, would it have been different if it was a white professor? So we'll be looking at that particular case because it does actually illustrate the unfairness or the lack of a hearing that people get because of racism, because of the color of their skin.

In the second hour, we will be dealing with, or we'll be looking at literacy, because I believe on the 8th of September is World Literacy Day, and looking at all aspects of literacy, not just the fact that, you know, are you able to read? Nowadays, literacy goes as far as being, you know, technically literate, right? And mathematically literate, because they're all aspects of our daily lives now.

We see all these, if you've got social media, if you've got a Snapchat account, an Instagram account, you'll see that it's all this artificial intelligence out there.

And it's being able to see what's real, okay, and to be literate in that sense.

I'm looking at my laptop.

I have access to everything in terms of knowledge.

So Literacy has never been more important.

I mean, with just a few words, artificial intelligence now can generate an essay, explain the most complicated idea, concepts, translate a language, right? Provide a answer to almost any question we ask.

Her name is Nicola, Nicola Kuhn, and she is an author, an education advocate, 2025 Junior City Council of Cape Town alumnus.

She has NPO, LIFT, Literacy is the Foundation of Tomorrow.

already donated 5,000 plus books, directly impacted 3,000 plus students across Cape Town, recently selected as the South African representative for the Youth Voices Council Teach for the Future.

She advises on global policy and works towards representing South African youth at the United Nations.

Yes, we do have a website.

Our website is liftfoundation.online. Let me repeat that, liftfoundation.online.

Currently, for International Literacy Day, which is the 8th of September, we are hosting more than 20 book drives across the globe, which will hopefully be able to empower the next generation and young people to be able to take part in literacy.

And we're also hosting a book drive currently at my school.

Welcome to Literacy Talks, the podcast for literacy leaders and champions everywhere, brought to you by Reading Horizons.

Literacy Talks is the place to discover new ideas, trends, insights, and practical strategies for helping all learners reach reading proficiency.

Our hosts are Stacey Hurst, a professor at Southern Utah University and Chief Academic Advisor for Reading Horizons.

Donnell Pons, a recognized expert and advocate in literacy, dyslexia, and special education.

And Lindsey Kemeny, an elementary classroom teacher, author, and speaker.

Now, let's talk literacy.

Welcome to this episode of Literacy Talks.

I'm Stacey Hurst, and I'm joined by Donnell Pons and Lindsay Kemeny.

And in 1982, Apple gives a Apple IIe computer to nearly every school in California, thousands of schools.

And it also ushers in this new thing, which is called computer literacy.

literacy.So how has that shaken out? Like, who, who, who has the biggest school market now, do you know?

Oh, well, in the United States, you know, Google came along, and in the early 2000s, universities and schools were paying a lot of money for legacy software systems like email, and Google offered this free package of Gmail and Docs and other things, and suddenly you saw entire universities overnight switching tens of thousands of students to Google.

And then after major universities switched to the Google apps, you saw huge school districts like Chicago Public Schools switch to the Google apps.

Hey, good humans.

Welcome to Educate's Literacy Podcast.

We are now in season three of On the Road to Literacy Success.

I'm your host, Dr. Stacey Bain, and a frequent guest this season will be Dr. Himilkhan Nsiarte.

We cannot wait to enjoy this year with you as we make tier one make better sense.

Slay on.

Welcome to On the Road to Literacy Success.

I'm your host, Dr. Stacey Bain, and I'm here with somebody that will be a frequent guest on On the Road to Literacy Success this season, the Dr. Hemakans Nsiarte from the University of California, Berkeley.

We have an event this weekend.

The fourth annual Wordstock, sponsored by Link to Literacy, which you are a big part of as well.

Yep, on

their board.

We're able to sign her up for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

We did.

Which is another component of Link to Literacy.

This organization that's doing Wordstock this weekend.