Electronic Literacies

Points to Discuss

• Literacy: Neutral Act?• Technology within the context of use• Describe someone literate from the pre-

printing press era?• What was the valued literacy of the time?• How did Literacy change in the 15th century?

Three School Based Literacy

• Knowledge of literature and rhetorical appropriateness

• Deweyan progressive paradigm of literacy• Technocratic Paradigm• Each school of literacy responded to certain

social, economical and cultural demands• 2 important lessons?

Online era

• Where did the Internet come from?• What is Computer Mediated Communication?– Synchronous and Asynchrous

• Google mail• Skype• Google docs

• Hypermedia and the WWW– How does Hypemedia and the www change the

notions of reading and writing?

Information Age and Network Society

• What does the new industrial revolution consist of?

Compare

Electronic Literacy

• Explain in your own words what are two opposing positions when it comes to the nature of electronic literacy.

(In)Equality

• Define what the author means by inequality when it comes to the internet. What is the nature of the inequality?

• WHAT ROLE DOES EDUCATION PLAY IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY