But whatever the cause, the literacy problem we face today is not illiteracy but aliteracy, a digital skimming that is simply an attempt to keep up with a deluge of information coming through our phones rather than slowing down and soaking up what is most important. Those who are aliterate have difficulty separating what is eternally valuable from what is transient. They skim, but not in order to identify and isolate what needs to be studied more carefully and meditatively. Because the aliterate cannot navigate this distinction, they struggle to draw relevance from written texts, especially
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