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Monthly Archives: October 2011
From Scroll to Codex
I laughed such a deep belly laugh that my sides hurt when it was finished. That was my reaction to the video Medieval Help Desk (Medieval Help Desk, 2007). The similarities between the monk helping his colleague and my job … Continue reading
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Opaque and Overhead Projector Technologies
For this assignment, I worked to study and contrast opaque and overhead projector technologies in the history of education. I also experimented with developing a hypertext version of my paper. You can explore my assignment 3 online space here!
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Tagged education, history, literacy, meaning, projectors, tools, visual
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Codex Manuscript to Codex Print
Introduction In the middle of the 15th century an obscure German goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg invented a movable type printing press in the city of Mainz. Thereafter, the new printing industry quickly spread across Europe and made possible the mass … Continue reading
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The Impact of Paperbacks on Western Culture
The sentiment, “Literacy is a luxury; fiction is a necessity” (Chesterton, p. 1) is perhaps key to our understanding of why the rise of the paperback novel has had such a significant impact on reading habits in our culture. Storytelling, … Continue reading
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Invention of Blackboard and Chalk
Introduction Blackboard and chalk have become symbols of traditional teacher-centred classroom, unwillingness to change and technological inferiority of schools. There is a story comparing teacher and surgeon who lived two hundred years ago. If they would come from the past, … Continue reading
The Invention of the Telegraph
“I’ll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii. 2.) The dream of traversing the globe, thereby … Continue reading
The Dictionary & Education
What classroom would be complete without a dictionary? Even hundreds of years ago, this may have seemed impossible. The dictionary has always been an educational tool for enquiring minds. People use them to learn languages, check spellings, look up meanings, … Continue reading
The Origins of Silent Reading and Punctuation
The shift from oral to silent reading and the addition of punctuation influenced reading, writing and education in profound ways. Please find our joint research project on this blog! Lynette Manton and Leonora Zefi
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Print to Audio/Audio-Visual (pre-digital)
The advent of the audio-visual technology system (AVTS) was introduced into a predominantly print society near the turn of the 20th century and had a profound historical, social and educational impact on the way we communicated. Bolter (2001, pp. 23-26) … Continue reading
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Rote to Note – From Slate to Notebook
The shift in tools and technologies from personal slate to personal notebook resulted in changes in thinking, teaching and learning. This research paper investigated the tools, technologies, contexts and impacts of this shift from ROTE to NOTE. To view the research … Continue reading
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Tagged education, history, notebook, Ong, oral tradition, paper, pen, Postman, rote, slate
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The Printing Press and the Bible
I chose to create a website to display my findings on the effects the printing press and the printed Bible had on society. Please view my site here or copy and paste the following link into your web browser. https://sites.google.com/site/printingpressandthebible/home
From Oral Tradition to the Printing Press in Jamaica
From Oral Tradition to the Printing Press in Jamaica: Shaping Literacy and Education Introduction The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the “ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and … Continue reading
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Pen and Paper
A Brief History of the Pen and Paper Writing with pen and paper can be traced back to Greece where writers used a stylus made of metal, bone or ivory (Bellis, 2011). These were used on beeswax wax-coated tablets made … Continue reading
Radio to Television
Introduction Radio and television, which often have been used for its entertainment value has had a great impact in society. Their communicative value is quite substantial and both in their unique way have influenced people in a variety of ways. … Continue reading
From Handwriting to Typewriting
“It is probable that longhand will persist-at least until inventions have made the typewriter as easy to carry as a pen or pencil and within financial reach of all.” Alice E. Benbow, 1925 (as cited in Templin, 1960, p. 164) … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, Chandler, communication, handwriting, Ong, text, tools, typewriting, writing, written word
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The Impact of Radio: Past and Present
Brief History of the Invention of Radio The concept that audio could be transmitted without wires came to reality in 1888 when German physicist Heinrich Hertz discovered radio waves; electromagnetic waves that have the capacity to transmit music, speech, … Continue reading
The Socio, Cultural and Psychological Effects of the Telephone
In an increasingly globally connected world one could argue that no other technological advancement had had such an effect on the ‘shrinking world’, at its inception, as the creation of the telephone. The ability to cast one’s voice … Continue reading
Icon to Symbol: A Change in Homo sapiens
Over 100,000 years ago, Home sapiens were an iconic culture (Barham, 2002). For this paper, an iconic culture is one that uses conventional interpretations for images. For example, a picture of the sun can … Continue reading
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The Rise of Text Books in Education
One of the ubiquitous icons of education is the textbook. It symbolizes the presence of consistent, reliable knowledge, which has led to creation of metaphors like “‘it was a textbook takeoff’ and ‘it was all done by the textbook’ (Crawford, … Continue reading
Personal books, individual thought: The broad impact of Gutenberg’s printing press
Of the many inventions in human history, printing press in the mid-fifteenth century has had perhaps the most substantial impact on human technological progress and those whose luck it was to be born in the centuries since its invention. Gutenberg’s … Continue reading
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