[Air-l] Technology and Literacy text

Heidelberg, Chris Chris.Heidelberg at ssa.gov
Fri Apr 21 07:47:25 PDT 2006


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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