Illiteracy In America Essay

Now it’s probably clear by now that illiteracy is actually quite a big problem in the United States, if there clearly aren’t enough statistics to show for it, something is wrong. After a study done by the National Center for Education Statistics done in 2003, at that time, 44 million people over the age of sixteen could not read a children's book, and also 50% of adults have never been able to read any book written over or at the eighth grade level (Adults in the US). There’s a reason why I am targeting this population, adults and not students, because they have already had school and had the opportunity to graduate high school, and also college. I understand that many have learning disabilities, but to have a nation as fortunate as ours, to have minor to no literacy skills is unreasonable. If our illiterate
In this technological age we are advancing at now, illiteracy becomes a bigger problem because of all the applications that can fix our mistakes. Applications such as auto correct and even Google have made us way too dependent on technology. When someone asks me a question I don't know, oh I’ll just look it up on Google, and that's not okay.They are usually helpful, like a crutch, but now we’re using them like a necessity. It has been a difficult transition from going from book learning to technological advances, we are trying to use it to make us better, but it is coming a bigger and bigger problem. And kids are using applications as if they're toys, and not as helpful learning tools, and now we are so reliable on their help, that if we had to live without technology, we couldn't do it because of how dependent we are, however students with severe learning disabilities can be highly dependent on these applications. That begs the question, how much technology dependency is too much (High-Tech