Share this passage with students and have them decode, reflect and generate questions on Jay's thoughts.
"Not everyone will be a professional writer, but everyone needs to learn to read a menu and write a text message. Likewise people should graduate understanding how things are made and how to build their own ideas, at least at the proficiency equivalent to writing a 5 paragraph essay. Right now we have single digit invention literacy percentage, and we have an accompanying fear of “how things work.” Invention literacy is a hidden literacy, and I’d like to uncover it. It’s the true 21st century literacy as human innovation speeds up approaching a crescendo of nearly instantaneous innovation (at least through the lens of last century)." -- Jay Silver