Katherine,
Media literacy is only recently becoming popular, and has a long way
to go....
One of the most well known published reports is "A fresh start" the
report of the working group chaired be sir claus moser http://
www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/mosergroup/
well worth reading, there's been a good bit since, but I don't keep a
log as such.
A recent Danish report, unfortunately not online quotes around fifty
percent of adults as functionally illiterate. It very much depends
where you draw the line....
many years ago I pointed out to the BBC accessibility team that their
news feeds had been written by graduates for other graduates and that
give their remit and the licence payers abilities this wasn't
reasonable. However the progress is slower than paint dries in most
climates.
~:'' is my monicker..
ありがとうございました。is Japanese for thank you, arigato
gosaimasu
they form a reasonably useful test for literacy, eg considering
machine literacy, some emails are saved differently. it's amazingly
easy to find them in a mess. and also junk mailers which occasionally
hoover mine.
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
On 4 Dec 2007, at 11:44, Katherine Moonan wrote:
Hi there Jonathan,
Well done for bringing up the lack of transcripts.
I was really interested t=in the stats you quoted about literacy and
reading age.
I couldn't find anything concise online regarding this. Can you point
me to some good stats please?
Also can you put on any mailing lists etc your organisation has?
Very best wishes,
Kath
Ps did you know that your name in the email header comes up in script
that looks like Thai???
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