The+Survival+of+Literacy+in+an+Image+Based+Culture

= //Time: 12:45 - 1:45pm (1hr session)// = toc
 * //Philip Hills, ACSI Western Canada Regional Director// **

**Session Information**

 * **Location:** Grade 2 Room //(HCS Campus Map)//
 * **Track:** K-12 Education
 * **Grade Level Focus:** All
 * **Exhibitor:** No

**Session Description**
Technology brings with it, many unintended consequences. Since the advent of photographs to the exponential growth of the internet, human beings have had unprecedented access to images. On a daily basis more images in the form of digital pictures and videos, are uploaded to the internet than people were able to draw, paint or carve in the history of the world to 1840. The ready availability of images and the diminishing value of words is having a dramatic impact on civilization. The greatest impact is peoples diminished capacity to know the living God due to the cultural dominance of images. Gods prohibition against making images of Him is a direct result of the way images reduce ideas (as opposed to the ability of words to expand them). This provocative workshop will focus on the importance of literacy as the best means to accessing the most profound ideas available to man. On a practical note, technology will be considered as both a friend and foe of literacy. Classroom strategies to use it as a friend will be presented.

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