[Air-l] Technology and Literacy text

[Douglas Eyman]

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