Re: Teach your kids to read it and reap, Letter, Sept. 27
Literacy in the 21st century must include reading and using the languages appropriate to communications technologies. To suggest that literacy is not occurring when people game or use social media is a mistake. As Facebook nears one billion users, we have to acknowledge the political and commercial uses of social media. To discourage children from becoming proficient in all media will limit their abilities to succeed in their personal, working and civic lives. By all means read books (and use Standard English when appropriate), but balance those experiences with reading and creating images, video and audio.
Neil Andersen, President, The Association for Media Literacy, Toronto