A
literate person is someone who has the ability to read and write.
Full definition
His remarks were criticized by organizations who work with the elderly partly on the grounds that poorer people may not be able to afford computer facilities and, partly because even
computer literate people may lose their skills in old age.
An
assessment literate person understands that it is not possible to conduct a sound assessment without a clear and specific purpose.
Further, an assessment
literate person understands that district assessment systems must take into account and balance the needs of users throughout the local context.
However, according to a 2007 report by National Endowment for the Arts, there are
more literate people in the United States who don't read than those who are actually illiterate.
The key — as every financially
literate person knows — is save as much as you can as early as you can and invest in a diverse index fund — ideally total stock market or SP500.
I always believed that my students could transform and find themselves, in addition to
becoming literate people and graduating from high school, but now I'm witnessing it.
So, as the
highly literate person of 2008might start off the day reading the New YorkTimes and firing off a cleverly worded letter tothe editor in response to a column, the highlyliterate person of 2028 may start the day ingestingthe news in multiple ways with varioustypes of stories they have programmed to bedelivered in a preferred order, each at a preferredspeed.
Assessment literate people believe the results of high - quality assessments accurately reflect the extent of student mastery of the learning target.
Don't mistake your experience as a computer -
literate person for that of everyone else in the world.
For many
theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.
Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are accepted uncritically by most
literate people as representing eternal realities.
Yea, poor spelling (especially if you write in your native language) is the most terrible thing in communication through the Internet (for more or
less literate people).
Non financially
literate people get talked into buying entering expensive UL policies that aren't easy to get out of, with the promise that it's «tax free» and «RRSP's are bad».
I used to have the snobbish attitude that many
mathematically literate people have towards lotteries: that they are «a tax on the mathematically illiterate», and so on.
You can comb through their portfolio to get a sense of what they do, but if you aren't the most
data literate person, it's likely you'll miss the nuance and craftsmanship that goes into a strong data visualization.
If it is not obvious to a person why a «mismatch» between a model and the temperature record are expected, this is a clue that their understanding is far below what it should be for a well read,
science literate person who claims to be interested in this issue.
By failing to present real math, the IPCC gives the impression they either don't know the math, or, don't want other
math literate people critiquing it.
It makes sense to have a more
literate person point out the mistakes on your resume if you don't know the proper spelling of certain words or if you lack a strong grasp of grammar.
You may have met someone or someones who fit this description, but it would be out of line to make it a rule unless you've met all or most
biblically literate people.
But consider what a truly
financially literate person — namely, legendary investor Warren Buffett — has to say about wealth and material possessions.
Andthough today's
highly literate person may enjoya sophisticated novel or nonfiction book on aplane or train ride, tomorrow's highly literateperson may prefer to change, by programming, whatever story or other media he or she is interactingwith to suit individual preferences, andmight then, with a little more programming, distribute those changes to the world.
Assessment
literate persons understand that the assessment process can contribute to the productive motivation of both students and teachers.
Jobs rose to eminence in computing partly because the number of technology -
literate people who wouldn't wear socks in sandals is vanishingly small.
«Once upon a time,
every literate person was versed in [these] techniques,» Foer asserts.
What benefits do you stand to gain as a financially
literate person?
It is perhaps the best of all types of literature of which many, if not most learned and
literate people, have come to learn how to read and understand language in its finest points.
As a thoughtful and
literate person would it not be more accurate for you to say:» I'm a secularist with a strong Christian influence».
These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example,
literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.
Interestingly, the depictions are what would be expected of relatively primitive hunting societies, but to my knowledge, they certainly do not reflect
a literate people, let alone a people who were familiar with the particular oral or written narrative contained in Genesis or this book's alleged supreme deity.