Hmmmm, interesting article...
A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society - Paul Musgrave:
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-literate-society-is-a-too
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@alcinnz Based on your linked article above and our conversation in this thread, you might be interested in the following:
The dawn of the post-literate society - by James Marriott (September 2025):
https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
The author makes an interesting reference to Walter Ong's book "Orality and Literacy", which states that "certain kinds of complex and logical thinking simply cannot be achieved without reading and writing".
#Literacy #CriticalThinking #Society #Philosophy #SocialMedia
@alcinnz Very interesting (and important!) article indeed!
Adjacent to this is the topic of effective teaching and learning:
A "Too-Literal" society will have trouble learning new things effectively, because one of the most active teaching methods is to not be _too literal_: as a teacher you want to spread little "breadcrumbs" on the way before revealing the final solution, so that your students have a chance to come up with the answer _by themselves!_
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@alcinnz When the teachers can't do this anymore, but have to reveal the solution right away, students won't learn effectively.
Because students won't learn effectively, teachers must keep this way of "too literate" teaching, which in turn hinders learning.
It's basically a never-ending spiral...
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@janriemer @alcinnz
the new way is called "The Socrapic Method"
@janriemer Yeah, I certainly recall that I learned most effectively when I reasoned things out for myself before reading the solution!
I recall getting bored in electronics class & asking myself how computers add numbers...
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