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Category Archives: Reflections
Making Connections
Making Connections Drawing a line along the path we’ve taken this semester, it is easy to see we’ve covered a lot of ground. Every element, however, has been thoroughly connected through the common theme of text (including orality as its … Continue reading
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Making Connections: Web 2.0 hypertext unifies minds
In this final reflection, I want to connect some of my own thoughts to key blog posts made by fellow students in this course regarding the association between writing technologies and the mind, specifically Web 2.0 hypertext and writing and … Continue reading
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What a Journey!
What a journey! We celebrated the richness of orality, its alluring qualities, and then its remediation through text. We realized that our fears of change have existed for throughout history when we read Postman and then realized how well text … Continue reading
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Exploring Text (redefined)
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Elliot This T. S. Elliot poem brings forth thougths about reflection … Continue reading
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Tagged labels, language, meaning, symbols, text, words
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Thoroughly Remediated!
Thinking about connections, I think probably the key connection that has helped bring sense to all we have discussed is “remediation.” Through the contributions of everyone in the course, I think it is fair to say that my understanding of … Continue reading
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Reflections on the journey
In the first two modules of our course, we used Walter Ong’s 1981 text Orality and Literacy as a catalyst for discussion. It initiated a significant shift in my way of thinking about literacy, not as simply the ability to … Continue reading
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connection and reflection
Making connection and reflection What an epic journey this has been! When I just started out, I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. However, after delving in the rich discussions and readings, I was naturally drawn to the … Continue reading
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Reflection – module 2
How might an understanding of the possible differences in the thought processes exhibited in oral and literate cultures inform teaching practices at all levels (especially the practices used in teaching young children who are preliterate, as well as adults who … Continue reading
