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Name: gina m chavez
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Date: 1999
Question:
Hello! My colleagues and I are doing a workshop in San Francisco Jan. 20th on the defintion of literacy and how technology enters the 20th century defintion of literacy and an integrated science unit on the environment. Could you please share with us your definition of literacy?

Replies:
A sufficient knowledge of English and of Latin / Greek roots to understand scientific terms; a sufficient knowledge of mathematics to interpret an equation; sufficient knowledge of biology to understand the basics of reproduction and nutrition; sufficient knowledge of physics to be aware of the existence of atoms and molecules and radiation; sufficient knowledge of chemistry to understand what acids and bases are (without which life itself would be impossible).

This seems to me to be a minimal starting place.

-dr topper


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