A time to add wisdom to my life, the 'Life Lessons' series.

From text reading to digital literacy,
From communication skills to empathy literacy
A new literacy class by Professor Cho Byeong-yeong, a leading authority in the field of literacy.

All the essential knowledge you need for life, all in one place! The twenty-sixth book in the "Life Lessons" series, a fascinating intellectual experience presented by Korea's leading professors, has been published.
The Life Lectures series, which transcribes the lectures of the best professors in various fields from universities across the country, including history, philosophy, science, medicine, and art, into books, provides readers with useful knowledge to live today and insight to look forward to tomorrow.
It is a knowledge and culture brand that allows you to encounter the best knowledge content in everyday life through not only books but also online lectures, YouTube, and podcasts.

"Slanted Literacy" is a book that redefines the literacy we need today.
The literacy we have learned so far has been automatic reading for improving grades and social status.
Professor Cho Byeong-yeong, a leading authority in the field of literacy, says that in this era where critical literacy for reflection is becoming rare, our thinking is becoming increasingly skewed.
This book offers a small hope and clue that literacy can go beyond the written word and contribute to social communication, cooperation, trust, and recovery as we move beyond the functional literacy schema and attempt to encounter and perceive the text of life.

We now live in the age of micropropaganda, a world filled with lies at the level of fine dust.
Lies in the digital age are more systematic than we think.
Those who sustain their petty power through lies establish consistency among lies and construct a plausible fictional world where lies become the principles and norms of life.
They try to give us the 'illusion' that we are living comfortably in their world without any problems.
In this day and age, what is more unfortunate than not being able to distinguish between illusion and fact, truth and falsehood, is that we are in a position where we can live in the world without any problems, without being able to discern and reject what is truly false.
--- From "Entering"

Media connects things to convey content and messages.
This is called mediation, or mediation or adjustment.
However, media also change themselves as they influence each other's functions and forms.
YouTube is a new media modeled after TV of the past, but these days, TV seems to have become a strange public media modeled after YouTube, overflowing with content focused on exposing private lives and entertainment.
This phenomenon of media being connected and the past and present influencing each other and changing is called remediation, or remediation or correction.
--- From "Intelligent Evolution of Media"

D_Distrust
Don't believe everything you see.
Just because you see it doesn't mean it's true.
Rather than believing everything we see, let us seek and examine what is unseen.
Be mindful of things that are unfairly obscured or appear large and important.
Let us be wary of hasty judgments.
--- From "DSLR Strategy for Penetrating Ultra-High Pixels"

Critical literacy is literacy that does not depend on the individual to be a system.
Literacy is the ability to think, judge, and act as a fully autonomous subject of meaning.
It is not only the literacy to handle information, the literacy to function as a person in daily life or as an economic being, but also the literacy to consider how we can read and write in a way that will benefit ourselves and our community.
--- From "AI and Critical Literacy"

AI consistently fails to apply what it has learned in context A to context B.
Humans have a very high-level ability to apply what they have learned in context A to context B.
This is called transfer learning.
--- From "Suspicious Artificial Intelligence"

In a fast-paced environment, there is no room for thought and reflection to breathe, no space to immerse oneself and create new meaning.
It is self-evident that it is difficult to fully grasp writing without investing effort and resources in thinking.
Asking, "Why don't I understand? Nothing sticks in my head? How do I read?" while quickly finishing a piece is a lament based on a flawed premise.
There is only one answer.
Read slowly.
--- From "The Betrayal of Learned Reading"

Our brain strives for efficiency.
In other words, the brain tries to maximize the cost-effectiveness.
When we casually watch videos on the Internet, most people think, 'I'm watching everything in this video,' but in many cases, people unintentionally only watch what they want to see.
--- From "Can I See the Gorilla"

Texts re-express our world (the world of experience, the world of life, the world of knowledge, the world of learning, the world of work, the world of play, the world of people, the world of life, the world of humanities, the world of nature, etc.).
In English it is representation, and in Korean it is re-enactment.
Presentation means 'to show', and the prefix re- is added to this word to make it 'to show again'.
Text is not a mirror that reflects the world, but a medium that shows the world again.
The reader connects it to his own world and creates a new world.
Reading and writing are the work of reshaping and reproposing the world.
--- From "Text Shows the World Again"

The little prince encounters the symbol 'tame', understands its meaning through questions, and experiences the word firsthand as he practices taming the fox.
This moving scene, which is read every time, subtly suggests that literacy is ultimately embodied in life experience.
Diverse life experiences, experiences of communication, experiences of discourse context, experiences of existence, and experiences of reading and writing provide a higher level of literacy.

--- From "Literacy Develops Through Experience"