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Making Connections
(Avenia, 2012) I, like many of my classmates, find the resources and advice that have been shared throughout ETEC 540 to be of immense value. The conversations through Vista, Wikis, and the Weblog have captivated my attention and taught me … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, culture, digital literacy, education, literacy, technology, text
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MEDIA AS METAPHOR?
COMMENTARY 3: MEDIA AS METAPHOR? Reading the last two chapters of Bolter’s Writing Space I found myself wondering what does ‘writing the self’ mean?, what would be the implications of this process? Bolter (2011) immediately suggests that “it seems almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, culture, digital literacy, digital media, literacy, mcluhan, Ong, postman, remediation, self, text, Turkle, web 2.0, writing
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The multiple senses of reading
The multiple senses of reading Commentary 3 Not too long ago, I had a discussion with my students (grades 10-12) about books and movies. We were discussing the fact that we always prefer the book – the written text form, … Continue reading
The Latest Meme: Multiliteracies Emerging, Mainly Everyday (and what to do about them)
The recent form or state of the Internet is often referred to as “Web 2.0”, which signifies a large change in form and use since it was first used widely. In his 2008 article, Bryan Alexander defines Web 2.0 as … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, digital literacy, digital natives, education, information retrieval, literacy, multiliteracies, technology, text, web 2.0
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The E-Volution of Literacy Pedagogy
Introduction The acquisition of literacy skills has been fundamental for several generations now in order to improve quality of life and work (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009). The influences of electronic writing, hypertext and hypermedia have contributed to create many new … Continue reading
A new landscape.
In his attempt to examine the changing landscape of representation and communication, Gunther Kress’s (2005) article titled, “Gains and losses: New forms of texts, knowledge and Learning” raises many discussion points that are helpful for analyzing this field. His primary … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, Commentary 2, communication, Kress, literacy, media, multimodal modes of representation, postman, remediation, text
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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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The Changing Pedagogy of Literacy
Being both a student and a teacher in today’s education system it has become clear that we can no longer think of literacy in its traditional sense. Traditionally, literacy has been defined as the ability to read and write; however, … Continue reading
Evolution of the Picture
In chapter four of Bolter’s (2001) Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print, the evolution of pictures to support the written word is outlined. He suggests that ‘words no longer seem to carry conviction without the reappearance as … Continue reading
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Web 2.0 – A dream in education
In the article ‘Web 2.0 and Emergent Multiliteracies’ by Bryan Alexander (2008), many issues surrounding digital literacies in our current education system are presented. While he does recognize that there are teachers embracing the need to incorporate new technologies and … Continue reading →