How to be Literate in Self-Learning

SELF-LEARNING LITERACY

in a

Plurilingual Communication-Oriented

Knowledge Society

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

ABSTRACT

Since 2019, we have been living in a pandemic, COVID-19, and a second epidemic has been developing for six months or so now, Monkeypox. Both epidemics started by jumping from wild animal species to man. I will not discuss these events more at the medical level which is in no way within my field of competence.

But- these epidemics and COVID-19 as a pandemic, still going on, have forced us to take measures we would never have thought possible, except in war time. Schools were closed. Confinement and total isolation were cast upon cities, or even provinces, or even countries to isolate the sick and protect the non-sick. Transportation was disrupted both for goods and for people. The Health system all over the world was overloaded and close to breaking point and collapse. That forced us to rethink education, and distant schooling was encouraged with today’s communications technology: 4G where optical fiber was available or where satellite networks existed, Virtual…