Leveraging post-literate tools like YouTube and emojis to create a website and mobile app that allows people to review the books they're reading while they're reading them, Beek is a startup that embraces the amazing contradictions of the internet age.
"I mean literally literate".
If we as university biology instructors are to make progress on the challenge of transforming our novice undergraduates into expert biological thinkers who are scientifically literate, then we all need tools that can aid us in revealing student thinking and in analyzing what we do in the classroom that supports or hinders the development of this scientific literacy in students.
Another benefit of coupling systems-biology models with databases, and a corresponding advance of our model, is that generating a constraint-based model from a database that has associated web-based visualization tools leads to a literate model (by analogy to Knuth's notion of literate programming [ 18]).
These qualitative procedures provide a framework for designing evaluation tools for low-literate audiences participating in the US Department of Agriculture food assistance and education programs.
OUR DEFINITION of a literate society inevitably shifts as our tools for reading and writing evolve, but the brief history of literacy for blind people makes the prospect of change particularly fraught.
In many ways, the indigenous rap movement has been an empowering tool for poorer, less literate communities in the city.
This is an example of literate programming (Knuth 1984), a key tool for ensuring that research results are reproducible.
Inspired by ideas taken from literate programming and notebook interfaces to design tools, a prototype document centred design document has been developed.
The first informed villagers about opportunities to participate in school governance and monitoring committees, the second trained villagers to use a testing tool, and the third organized literate villagers to hold remedial reading classes for illiterate children.
This process reinforced the need for additional work and research into conducting surveys in non- and low-literate populations and the importance of evaluating tools for cross-cultural use.
