Solomon’s chapter 5

I have just read the chapter 5 out of Toward Digital Equity:  Bridging the Divide in Education. It was the hardest chapter so far for me to understand.  I read it slowly and tried to understand how all the pieces fit into literacy.  The only thing that I got out of the chapter is that literacy means different things to different people and in today’s world that is ever changing also.  If I had to define literacy it would be:  ”literacy is the ability to accomplish what you need or want to accomplish using whatever medium or technology you choose. ” For example, if you need to chat with your family in a different state or country on the internet and you are capable of doing that, than you have literacy in communicating with you family on the internet.  Again the chapter seemed to ramble and discuss things that were showing how literacy is in the eyes of the beholder.  The one thing that keep coming back up in the chapter was who has the right to define literacy in terms of what our k-12 students need to know.  I agree that literacy depends on what you will need to know and that takes in account things that other people can’t tell you.  With that being said, how can we test all students with the same test and determine literacy of those students??  Comments on what I said will help me to know if I’m on the right track??  Thanks