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Tag Archives: technology
Making Connections: We can do it.
I have been interested in how technology, and more specifically mobile technology, has been affecting and changing the way our students communicate and interact with each other for some time now. After this taking this course I realize that I … Continue reading
Connecting Past and Present
As I reflect on the many things I learned throughout this course remediation comes to mind over and over. Oral literacy played a prominent role in society for generations, even though it had its downfalls. The development of the written … Continue reading
Creatures of Habit and Agents of Change
We are creatures of habit. This course is all about change, changing our habits and providing some knowledge to help others change. Text Technologies: The changing spaces of reading and writing – I think I now know what the title … Continue reading
Posted in Making Connections, Uncategorized
Tagged computers, education, innovation, knowledge, literacy, printing press, technology, text
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Final Project: Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodality
To publish my project, I explored with the blogging tool Serendipity. Please visit my space here, where you will find my theoretical paper, my concept map, and a few other resources related to my topic. The story of how I installed … Continue reading
Posted in Major Project, Technology
Tagged Bolter, culture, Kress, literacy, social, technology, theory
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Julie’s Resource Collection
I am in my last term of the MET program so I have collected and tested a few technologies along the way. One key point that I learned from ETEC 565 was that it’s important to think about why you … Continue reading
Commentary #2 – Technology, human experience and memory
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience, it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is, to commence as I said before with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. Leonardo da … Continue reading
Literacy and Orality: Preserving endangered oral languages with literacy
In the book Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong (1982), the author describes how languages have evolved from an oral form to a written or literate form. He not only describes the origin of oral languages and the transitions to … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, culture, fluent speakers, Indigenous, language, literacy, Orality, technology
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Neil Postman’s Technological Determinism
Postman (1992) uses an excerpt from Plato’s Phaedrus in which Thamus, a king of a great city of Upper Egypt, criticises Theuth’s invention of writing, as a starting point for his discussion on the influence of technology on society in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandler, Postman, technological determinism, technology
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Commentary #1- Role of technology in informing and transforming culture
The rapid development of digital technologies and their impact not only on language and literacy issues but on our society in general, prompt us to examine and question the implications of such development in our lives and on our role … Continue reading
Danielle’s Ong Commentary
I have chosen to write a commentary on Ong’s (1982) fourth chapter entitled Writing Restructures Consciousness because I am finding the history of writing fascinating and I wanted to explore the questions surrounding the human motivation to write as well … Continue reading
Where literacy and technological determinism collide
The steady upward climb of humanity from the rustic simplicity of prehistoric times towards the modern digital age has been long and arduous; fraught with peril and upheaval, power shifts and cultural extinctions, and an ever-increasing rate of technological innovation. … Continue reading
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Tagged intersection, Neil Postman, Ong, Orality, technological determinism, technology, tools, writing, written word
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Paradox and Tension in Theories of Orality, Text and Technology
Paradox is defined as contradiction or conflict with statements that are reasonable or possible. (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Theories surrounding the nature of orality, text and technology is rife with paradox. It is through illuminating paradox that we become comfortable with … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandler, Ong, Orality, paradox, Postman, technology, tension, text
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Commentary #1: Determined by technology or determined by our actions
Postman’s article, The Judgement of Thamus (Postman, 1993), illustrates how new technologies alter our conception of reality. This transformation is an ecological change. The intrusion of a new technology involves an entire culture and context. It is not possible to … Continue reading
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Tagged literacy, Orality, technological determinism, technology, text
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My Definition of Technology
Technology is the constant development of products and processes by humans in an effort to improve upon existing conditions. Continued technological development results from humanity’s perpetual struggle to solve problems, and to meet needs and wants that are perceived to … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged definition, human curiosity, innovation, meaning, technology, Technology definition, tools
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Technology
“We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between … Continue reading
Text as Technology
Text as the written word is a technology to capture orality. Ong describes text as technology on page 8 without really saying it in a couple of places. First he describes the world of sound as the natural habitat of … Continue reading
Text Can Save Life
Photo: St Petersburg by Steve White2008 When I started to think what short passage that sheds light on the meaning of text I might use I remembered the sign I read many years ago in St Petersburg. The sign located … Continue reading
Posted in Text
Tagged communication, context, Cyrillic, language, reading, Russian, technology, translation, writing
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It is up to us.
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” … Continue reading
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Tagged cellphones, globalization, Internet, Jimmy Carter, Neil Postman, technology
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The Meaning of TECHNOLOGY
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery For me, technology is any kind of tool imagined, made and used by humans to change their natural … Continue reading
Commentary 3 – Web 2.0: Creating New Students and New Educators
Schools are equipped with computers and wifi, and students are coming to school as experts in these new technologies (Alexander, 2008). As students become more expert at web 2.0 tools such as blogging, social … Continue reading →