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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Commentary #2 – “Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Texts”
Mabrito M. & Medley, R. “Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Texts” In the article, “Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read: Understanding the Net Generation’s Text’s Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley (2008) argue that Net Generation (Net-Gen) have … Continue reading
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Commentary #2 – Digital Literacy written by Dobson and Willinsky
This commentary is based on the Digital Literacy reading as written by Dobson and Willinsky. The authors detail the historical emergence of digital literacy within the last three decades through their perspective that digital literacy is a continuity and extension … Continue reading
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Commentary #2
Commentary #2 Chapter 2 in Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print In the opening chapters of Jay David Bolter’s Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, the idea of remediation begins to take hold. Bolter(2001), … Continue reading
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Assignement # 3
Please see “The History of the Study of Grammar” in the class wiki and follow the links ETEC540/2010WT1/Assignments/ResearchProject/StudyofEnglishGrammar Tamara Wong
“As We May Think”
In his 1945 paper “As We May Think,” Dr. Vannevar Bush made many accurate predictions about future technologies. Bush suggested that cameras could be as small as walnuts, they would automatically adjust the exposure to the light in the room, … Continue reading
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The effect of the printing press in the Renaissance in the 15th century, Italy
Just a note before beginning! Even though plenty of literature available on studies on the relation of technology and cultural changes, I didn’t have much success on trying to find scholarships related to the impact of the printing press in … Continue reading
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In western educational systems of today, children are taught to read much the same as they have been taught to read for decades. Generally speaking, children are taught to read phonetically, breaking words down into their sounds (individual letter sounds … Continue reading
Considering the Politics of Mass Literacy: Parallels in print and technological literacy.
Assignment 3 (Research Topic) As an educator a great emphasis in my own recent professional growth and learning has been in the area of technology literacy and preparing the 21st century learner for a 21st century world. There is, of … Continue reading
The Role Print Played on the Study of Human Anatomy
During the late 1970s and early 1980s Elizabeth Eisenstein wrote extensively about the revolution that occurred after the invention of print and termed it the ‘Unacknowledged Revolution’ as she felt it had been overlooked. The printing press gave the general … Continue reading
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Commentary on Multiliteracies
As I work through the modules and do the readings, I wondered what literacy actually encompasses. I am aware that the course is about literacy but one term has resonated in me: multiliteracy. “Multiliteracy” is a term that was devised … Continue reading →