[Air-l] Technology and Literacy text

Douglas Eyman eymand at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 21 09:16:53 PDT 2006


Chris,

McLuhan's work is certainly important, but moreso I think in terms of 
media literacy (read: understanding media from the receiver's 
perspective)...but it doesn't do much in terms of production. I'm 
reading "literacy and technology" to speak more to how people use 
technologies to support their literate activities (reading and 
writing--both alphabetic and multimodal), which includes both critical 
analysis (in terms of reading media/technologies) and 
writing/building/composing digital texts.

Mark -- I'd add the following a short piece that connects digital 
composing practices with MOOs and other remediative technologies to the 
New London Group's take on multimodality, which might be useful (and not 
just because I wrote it ;)

Digital Literac(ies), Digital Discourses, and Communities of Practice: 
Literacy Practices in Virtual Environments. Eyman, D. Cultural Practices 
of Literacy Study Working Paper #12

http://educ.ubc.ca/research/cpls/content/working.html

(this is coming out as a chapter in a book next month, but the other 
work in that text includes literacy studies of Somali refugees, migrant 
farm workers, etc -- good stuff in terms of literacy studies but not 
focused on technology as such)



Doug

Heidelberg, Chris wrote:
> Mark & Doug:
> 
> Consider using the seminal work by McLuhan & Fiore, The Medium Is The
> Message. It is a short and quck book but it was prophetic. 
> 
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> 
> Doug and others--thanks for your replies.  I am planning on using Gee's
> videogames book (cited by Doug below) and also my own book, Laptops and
> Literacy (coming out from Teachers College Press by the end of summer
> 2006, which covers use of computers in K-12 settings). 
> I want a third book that provides an overview of the relationship
> between technology and literacy, probably something similar to Ilana
> Snyder's edited books but if possible more up to date.
> 
> Thanks again--
> mark
> 
> 
>>Mark,
>>
>>I'm wondering if you mean the use of technology to study literacies, 
>>technology-supported literate activities, or techno-literacies such as 
>>information literacy?
>>
>>Ilana Snyder has edited two collections that might be useful for a 
>>general "technology and literacy" course that hits each of these
> 
> approaches:
> 
>>_Page to Screen; Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age_  (1997) and 
>>_Silicon Literacies; Communication, Innovation and Education in the 
>>Electronic Age_ (2002)
>>
>>Gunther Kress's _Literacy in the New Media Age_ (2002) would be 
>>appropriate for an advanced undergraduate course; he takes issue with 
>>applying the "literacy" label to processes other than reading and 
>>writing alphabetic texts, which is a key question for 
>>technology/literacy studies.
>>
>>For an accessible text that focuses primarily on gaming (and that can 
>>be used in a variety of interesting ways), there's Jim Gee's _What 
>>Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy_ (2004).
>>
>>Finally, Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe's _Literate Lives in the 
>>Information Age: Narratives on Literacy from the United States_ (2004).
>>
>>The above list of texts comes mostly from the fields of literacy 
>>studies and computers and writing.
>>
>>
>>Doug
>>
>>Douglas Eyman, Senior Co-Editor
>>Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 
>>htp://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
>>
>>Mark Warschauer wrote:
>>
>>> Can anybody recommend a text on Technology and Literacy to be used  
>>>for an undergraduate course on the topic to be taught in spring 2007?
>>>
>>> Thanks--
>>> Mark
>>
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