Literacy is no longer defined as proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic. There are literacies developed in grades K-12. Here is a look at the top thirteen. Several have been interwoven into groups.
1. Digital Literacy: Proficient in using digital devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops to achieve various goals.
2. Media Literacy: Adaptability to new communication formats such as instant messaging, push notifications, wikis, online communities, blogs, or vlogs and the ability to choose the most effective medium to use.
3. Visual Literacy: Ability to comprehend and create videos, photos, infographics, and other visuals.
4. Data Literacy: Comprehend data to make informed decisions.
5. Game Literacy: Online video games lead to higher scores in math, reading, and science, and additionally help develop fine motor skills, better navigation abilities, and problem-solving strategies.
6. and 7. Health & Financial Literacy: These two form a partnership. Being in a healthy financial position makes it easier to make healthy choices. Health enables financial stability.
8. and 9. Civic & Ethical Literacy: Civic literacy involves understanding your rights and responsibilities as a citizen and seeing opportunities and paths for involvement. Ethical literacy enables the ability to analyze what to do when core values conflict.
10. News Literacy: Being able to tell the difference between fact and fiction by reading the news, how to think about it, and evaluate it.
11. and 12. Coding & Computational Literacy: Coding can help learn how a computer could help solve a problem. Inventing a solution is as important as the ability to write code.
13. Foundational Literacy: Ability to read, write, and understand.
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