Thursday, October 4, 2012

From Pencils to Pixels: The Stage of Literacy Technologies


Before the Read: To me, there is absolutely no comparison into the technologies that are today compared to back then. Yes, the basics started when my mom and grandparents were younger, but so much has increased over time. Cell phones are much smaller and can even browse the internet. The internet has significantly become a value in today's time. Using laptops and science as well with medicine and space technologies. Everything we use in today's time plays such a major role and effects us significantly.

Summary: In his article "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies", Dennis Baron attempts to explain writing technologies. He argues that writing technology is the start of all technological advances in our time. We must learn what they are so that we can better understand it and develop stronger versions of technology.

Synthesis:  Deborah Brandt's article and Baron's article are very similar in the way we look at the past and the histories of what they were writing. Brandt's article talks about the past in one's literary sponsors were as Baron talks about the history in our writing and the technology behind it.

Q&D 5: Authenticity plays an important part when it comes to technologies so they must be able to be used thoroughly and mostly without problems. Fraud comes in with technologies, because now it is much easier to change the way original prints and texts are with mere erasing and rearranging and it is without question.

MM: Writing is not technology in my opinion. Technology is more of an electrical outlook in my opinion.  I feel that we should learn the basis of writing and that this will help us further develop skills in our minds for elaborate problem solving and communications, but I still feel it in the aspect of just writing utensils compared to a technological aspect.

Opinion: The evolution of our world is amazing to look at and to think about as I was reading through this. Honestly, I was impressed with how everything worked out. We are increasing our knowledge on things that are helpful for us every day and this will continue throughout the centuries.

1 comment:

  1. Good response, Rae'ven. Please understand that "technology" does not equal "electronics." I hope this article and our class discussion have helped you realize that writing is undeniably a kind of technology (because it's an unnatural, human-made means to our ends meant to make our lives easier), even though we don't think of it in the same "high-tech" terms that we associate with computers, etc.

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