Reaction Paper: 3 Idiots

Reaction Paper: 3 Idiots

Coronel, Mary Angelson

2014-64398

NSTP – M

When I knew that we’re going to watch 3 Idiots, I immediately became excited not because it’s going to be my first, nor send, nor third, but because I have watched it for more than 8 times and it’s one of my favorite movies. Unsurprisingly, even though I almost memorize all the lines in the movie, I still cried while watching it. I believe that it is the most powerful movie that I have watched for it really affected me as a student.

3 Idiots is a movie about the life of three engineering students who went to study at the best engineering college in India. They became the best of friends even though the two other were somehow asked by their professor and fathers to stay away from their friend, Rancho because they believe that he isn’t a good influence especially to their education. The movie shows different kinds of students and how each one of them reacts to different problems. 

The main gist of the movie is that there are different ways to learn and people don’t have the same study manners. I learned that your drive in studying should be what others want you to be because it will be harder for you in the future. I also learned that what others think about you is not important. It is what the important people in your life like your friends and family that is.

The movie taught me to really reflect on what I want to become in the future and how I would let other people’s opinion about my life affect me.

Different Types of Literacy

Different Types of Literacy

Coronel, Mary Angelson

2014-64398

NSTP – M

In technical terms, Literacy is a fundamental human right and foundation for lifelong learning. For some, it just means being able to read. Literacy, like many other words used in daily conversations, has a lot of different meaning that depends on the interpretation of each person to describe it. It is deeply known that the invention of writing led the humankind to many other useful creations including those that are very commonly used today. It can be therefore concluded that literacy is one of the most important foundation in a man’s life and we, LTS 1 students, are expected to contribute to at least one child’s literacy progress and it can be started by first knowing the different types of Literacy.

There are a lot of types of Literacy and until today, many others are still being produced. I will give few examples of the most basic types of Literacy that we encounter in our daily lives.

1.    Functional literacy: The level of literacy required to get along successfully on a day-to-day basis. 

2.     Cultural Literacy: Cultural literacy is the ability to understand and appreciate the similarities and differences in the customs, values, and beliefs of one's own culture the cultures of others.

3.    Multicultural Literacy: Multicultural literacy is knowledge of cultures and languages, as well as the ways in which multi-sensory data (text, sound, and graphics) may introduce slant, perspective, and bias into language, subject matter, and visual content. 

4.    Information Literacy: The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand. 

5.    Media Literacy: Media literacy is an informed, critical understanding of the mass media. 

6.    Biliteracy: Biliteracy is knowing how to read in two or more languages. This type of literacy, in particular, can be observed everyday in the campus because of the many ethnic groups.

7.    Visual Literacy: Based on the idea that visual images are a language, visual literacy can be defined as the ability to understand and produce visual messages. 

8.    Computer Literacy: The ability to use a computer and its software to accomplish practical tasks. 

9.    Mathematical Literacy or Numeracy: Numeracy is a mastery of the basic symbols and processes of arithmetic.