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Because they are defined individually by each of us depending on how we view
them, I don't believe that literacy and technology can be definitively defined, but rather questioned.
Is literacy as simple as the ability to read and write? Is it the ability to comprehend what we've read, taking it
apart and analyzing it under a microscope? Or is it more complex than that.
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Small Pig by Arnold Lobel is one of the first books I learned
to read. My mother sat and read with me while I learned, helping me sound out words and use intonation. I don't
know if it's because she was encouraged by my teacher (which is what occurs at my own children's school) or if she just felt
the need to read with me.
Anyhoo...I knew Small Pig by heart, frontward and almost backward. It was my favorite book as a child, and I kept that book until I was a teenager
when I believe it was lost in a move.
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Between elementary school and high school, I really didn't read much. But I loved
to learn, so whatever we were working on in school, I came home and looked up in our World Book Encyclopedias that my folks invested in.
Before I started high school, I was still fairly new to the little town north of San
Diego known as Poway and the only good friend I had moved to Oregon. At my mother's insistence, I tried to form a new friendship with one
of the girls who moved into my friend's house. The only thing I got out of it was renewed passion for reading.
She introduced me to a new genre of books by an author I'd never heard of: VC Andrews.
The friendship didn't work out but I was equally as insistent as my mother, and begged
her to get a library card for me at the public library, where I checked out all the VC Andrews books I could before I started collecting them.
I soon took up writing more diligently than the notes I passed in class or the letters
I wrote to penpals and friends I'd moved away from. I started writing poetry.
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"Scientists will pay for this and rue the day they
ever tried to change your world" (TFF).
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