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Possibilities open up when you have access to educational materials, and especially books

Why children should be reading at an early age:
- https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150198556085646
Literacy Statistics - Some links to stats:
- http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=367&IF_Language=eng&BR_Region=40540
- Many SA Kids can’t read or write -see June 29 2011article in IOL News http://www.iol.co.za/news/many-sa-kids-can-t-read-or-write-1.1090583
- According to UNESCO, in the world today there are about 1 billion illiterate adults:
  - This 1 billion is approximately 26 percent of the world's adult population
  - Women make up two-thirds of all illiterates
  - 98 percent of all illiterates live in developing countries
  - In the least developed countries, the overall illiteracy rate is 49 percent
  - Africa as a continent has a literacy rate of less than 60 percent Global development initiatives recognize the critical need for literacy development.
  - From: http://read.org.za/index.php?id=41
- Book stats? how many schools actually have books, never mind the right books, or even enough books?
  - 23 percent had access to newspapers and magazines
  - 53 percent had fewer than ten books
  - 53 percent of learners' families did not have any books in the home
  - Only 27 percent of schools had libraries
  - Study done in 2003 to 2006, see http://read.org.za/index.php?id=48

What is the Bookshelf Project?
- How did you see the need for your study techniques in the bookshelf centres?

BOOK - The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
- What could the impact of kindle and ebooks have on learning and reading?
- "Yoza publishes m-novels, short for mobile novels on cellphones, and invites readers to comment on these stories. Aimed at teens and young adults, our stories make for compelling, entertaining reading. Our philosophy is to publish great content where the kids are at: on MXit." see: http://read.org.za/index.php?id=25&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=54&cHash=0b746be83e

MOVIE- Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
- http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
- Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
- ‎"Picasso once said this. He said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we are educated out of it" - Ken Robinson, a visionary cultural leader of our times.
- Is the way we are educating our children today, actually doing them a dis-service?

Our sister channel (LTAfrikaans) is reminding everyone that this coming Saturday (13 August) is "Buy an Afrikaans book" day