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Technology and the Resurgence of Orality
Features of orality are resurfacing with modern technology. Writing has been the overwhelming technology for recording information for centuries. At its inception, writing was criticized for how it would affect our mind. (Postman, 1992) It removed discourse, much of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, discourse, Future, goggles, hypertext, image search, Ong, orality, postman, remediation, rhetoric, technology, text, Twitter
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The History, Present and Future of Educational Technology: Web 2.0 and Beyond
Educational technology is a catchphrase on the tongues of many educators of the digital age. It is a conglomerate term that suggests an updated teaching pedagogy, a transition to a student centered classroom and a combination of tools that are … Continue reading
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Tagged digital literacy, Future, multiliteracies, technology, web 2.0
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Digital Literacy: The Need to Prepare Students for the 21st Century Workplace
Dobson & Willinsky (2009) noted that the “digital aspect of literacy, invisible to the naked eye, is the very current that drives the global information economy” (p. 1). The need for a digitally literate population is critical if Canada is … Continue reading
Wrestling with Remediation
Throughout our fourth module, the term remediation – and the concept of it – has stuck with me the most. In J. D. Bolter’s book, Writing Space, the inferred definition could be “change with some kind of clash or one-upmanship” … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary 2, communication, culture, Future, hypertext, literacy, mcluhan, Ong, orality, postman, remediation, technology, text, text technology, writing
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Storing the World’s Knowledge
When predicting the future developments in writing technology and the directions of knowledge storage at the close of World War II, Vannevar Bush (1945) was faced with a very different world than those of us who consider these technologies in … Continue reading
Write & Wrong
Introduction In the first few weeks of our course, we have read and talked about two separate cultures – oral ones, and literate ones. In the past, especially, oral cultures have been thought to be more simple, primitive, and not … Continue reading
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“Print is dead.”
“Print is dead.” Dr. Egon Spengler, GhostBuster. Why did I choose this image, of all possible images in the world? Dr. Egon Spengler was always my favorite GhostBuster and for reasons beyond my understanding, this quote has always stuck with … Continue reading
Tagged 1984, Future, Ghostbusters, Introductions, Pop Culture, Print
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Educating the Net Generation
In educating the net generation it is vital to show awareness of their unique educational needs, without which the benefit of their education is questionable. Both educators and the tools and techniques they use must rise to the challenge of … Continue reading →