Abstract
Este artigo chama a atenção para a importância do novos letramentos em contraste com o letramento antigo, centrado nos "três Rs". Além disso, argumenta contra a crença de que se trata apenas uma atualização do antigo e defende que as circunstâncias em processo de mudança forçaram um repensar completo do que significa ser letrado num novo mundo emergente, no qual a velha ordem está desmoronando rapidamente e novas formas de comunicação estão sendo criadas em um ritmo impressionante. É preciso levar em conta o contexto mais amplo do mundo em que vivemos hoje e a necessidade urgente de ir além de nossos estreitos interesses paroquiais, enfrentar os desafios apresentados por um mundo cada vez menor e o papel de diferentes nações como responsáveis pelo nosso destino comum. O artigo também alerta contra os perigos das fake news e do uso constante das mídias sociais para espalhar a desinformação, além da necessidade urgente de se investir em programas de letramento com uma postura crítica. Argumenta, ainda, que, como professores, devemos nos concentrar em incentivar nossos alunos a procurar significados ocultos nos textos e nos processos, ajudando-os a aprender a ler nas entrelinhas, ao invés de simplesmente se ater ao sentido literal do que está impresso.
Highlights
This paper draws attention to the importance of new literacy and contrasts it with old one, centred around the ‘three Rs’
A time there was, not so long ago, when it was quite fashionable to talk of the three ‘Rs’—Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic—as all that a child needed as the bare minimum of skills to be acquired from its early schooling days in order to emerge, later on in life, as a fully-fledged adult, ready to take on the challenges of the modern, literate society. It was tacitly assumed in those days that the three Rs constituted the fundamental building blocks of all learning
In turn, is all a matter of gathering information that can be measured quantitatively—the more information one gathers, the more one can be considered knowledgeable! It does not at all seem to occur to the enthusiasts for such a view of education that the learner needs to forge effective and adequate filtering mechanisms to sift through the plethora of information that they are routinely bombarded with—a crucial question that has acquired great urgency in our times of fake news deliberately being planted everywhere and start swirling around the cyber space at alarming ease and velocity
Summary
This paper draws attention to the importance of new literacy and contrasts it with old one, centred around the ‘three Rs’. In the field of Linguistics, for instance, this idea of building up from simple to complex elements was taken for granted, especially in those days when Bloomfieldean structuralism reigned supreme.
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