412notes

First of all I have to agree with Heather on what she said in class last week concerning this week's reading. I went to great lengths in attempt to print out these articles. The Monitoring Order piece i was finally able to print and enjoyed what the writer had to say once i did but the Xena piece while the bits i read were interesting i had trouble figuring out what exactly i was supposed to be reading and perhaps my lack of Xena persuasion made this even more difficult.


on to Hock's piece.
Her Three basic "prongs" make complete sense to me as a consumer of digital language. but they are exactly things i think are completely necessary for a reader. I am constantly reading and traveling through text online whereas printed text cannot really take a person anywhere. The ideas she discusses reminds me of the choose your adventure books i read years ago. You didn't read the books from front to back but rather in a scattered order depending on the choices you made as a reader. And in a way digital/visual rhetoric is much the same way. There are multiple hyper links and avenues the reader may take and while the ending may be the same the path to get their is entirely different with each reader. (it should be known that I did not enjoy these books. lol.)
While I am a constant user of technology and "online literacy" I still prefer the written text in a book I can hold or paper I can write on and the computer screen.

1 Your Question- what are you curious about?
Do we have privacy in today's technological world?

2. Your reseach plan- what are you to do to answer your curiosity?
have to use more recent research. this is an up and coming
3. What kinds of info do you need?
survey of students?~!
read privacy codes on websites


talka bout
a. fit between curiosity and plan
b. what problems do you forsee, what help do you need?
c. where your voice will be in the project?

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How, specifically, have you been changed by your experiences of technologies? What do your digital literacies lead you to expect in school? What kinds of literacies do your teachers expect in school? What kinds of technology experiences have seemed useful to you in your previous schooling?



this article seems to speak specifically to my technoautobiography, and my admitted addiction to technology. for any and almost all of my education I have tried to use technology as much as possible. When I was younger it was just me typing all of my assignments that I could have just handwritten. As I have gotten older technology is an even more integral part of my education as I striveing to learn as much as I can to be able to use technology in my own future classrooms.

Sadly I know that I am not like everyone else, not everyone is ready to use techonolgy in their everyday lives and for them this inceaseing technology is frightening and difficult to understand.

Many of the topics this article discusses are thing I do not know if I would have been comfortable using at a high school level. For the most part I am comfortable now as a college student using online discussions and turning things in online, but as a high school student I may not have been technolicially ready to do these things for classes.

I suppose really I need to better understnad where high school students are as far as technology and where they are going to see where I need to be to teach using technology.

"eletronic text is thus not only a fluid network of writing, but it is also a fluid of information ans interpersonal relationships"

symbloic language---
eletronic writing--
printing press--
hypertext--

litercy to orality--
linearity to connectivity--
fixity to fluidity--
traditaional quality to value--


"any wriitng that leads the reader to seek it out can be called good writing"--any writing that people are willing to read can be considered good writing.. there are not estabilish rules as to good writing on the internet

interactivty between reader/writer/text.-- there is little or no definate line between the three.. everything is changeing and fluid..

who is she writing for... college educators hesitant of technology b/c they feel it takes away from the study of literacy

what does the audience know...technology is becoming a crucial part of education
how can technology enhance literacy?
well aware that technology in education is an issue but choose to avoid it..
not paying attention vs. not noticing or understanding it..

what does the audience need to know.... there is a link between technology and literacy it's a necessary and essential part of the literate classroom b/c society is only moving forward..

she is saying that technology is not necessary part of eng educations as much as other studies...


OUTLINE
I. Defining the problem :what aren't we addressing?
"Allowing ourselves the luxury of ignoring technology is dangerously shortsighted"
II. How ignoering technology = Ignoring literacy
"Teachers who choose no to use technology (have) the mistaken belief that....avoid (ing) technology absolves them...from paying critical attention to technology issues"
III.what action do we take?
"teachers, students, parents, admin. must pay attention to the linkage between technology and literacy- recognizing...the local conditions affecting the work they do"

Recommended Actions
-make computers accessible to all
-pursue opportunities that resist systems that established a narrow, official version of literacy practices of skills
-engage in professional activism
-educators need to conduct more research
-involve students work with teachers in apply technology
-vote
-pre and inservice training
-teach students to think critically about technology
-don't allow technology to disappear

so i realize i haven't posted on the other two articles but i don't really find much to say...
maybe ill find more during discussion... we'll see?!


EDIT
Who is she writing for, what does her audience know, what does it need to know?
she is writing for educators who are hesitatnt to technology bc they feel it is taking away from literacy.
her audience needs to know that there is a link and that technology is a key part of education and neccessary and essential as a paret of the classroom bc societ is only moving forward...

first off it cracks me up that this article refers to the personal computer as a fad...
and even more shocking is that the article continues to compare personal computers to war...
I love the fact that this is discussing mostly apples and the ability to create programs for it..this is something that has seemingly gone out of 'style' and is now coming back with the popularity of macs..

"We make money with the computer, but all we can do with a new carpet is walk on it. Somebody once said there were five reasons to spend money: on necessities, on investments, on self-improvement, on memories and to impress your friends. The carpet falls in that last category, but the computer falls in all five." i just liked this quote so i thought i would make sure i could find it later..

wow accessing the computer 3 times in 12 minutes.. yea i would hate to see what i do now if i would to attempt to record it...

i think it's crazy that just becuase of the creation of computers everyone assumes they will take over, that offices will become useless....

all in all this article really makes me laugh, and this has to be because i have grown up in a generation where I have always used computers and they have never ran my life. granted i use them daily on and addictive basis but this is a choice, i could if i have to go without them.... and this article seems to make computers and technology look like a bad guy. and while i can understand this i just dont agree

As of right now all I have read is the 2006 Time magazine, I stumbled across the actual magazine at work and felt so compelled to purchase it. I found the entire issue interesting, I haven't yet looked at which section I was specifically supposed to read but I read the entire thing. It was great to see how much user created forces are "ruling" the world now. It is somewhat empowering to me...


Also we were discussing this in class but I found it beneficial to read this in print instead of online just because I do not sit down and read Time magazine or any magazine regularly.

be back later when i have read more!