[Air-l] Technology Transforming Education--EE-Learning

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> From: Dr. Steve Eskow <drseskow at cox.net>
>
> <<Media is the fourth R for arts.  Text may remain important much as did 
> latin for higher education.>>
>
> This has become the new conventional wisdom, widely circulated and 
> believed by "digital natives" and those who believe that the natives are 
> a new breed with new nervous systems, visual learners, multitaskers, and 
> so on. That is: text is the new Latin, a concern of mandarins and 
> antiquarians, the world itself to be organized and run by the imagists 
> and the visualists.


I think there's a common presumption, on the part of many, that this 
hasn't always-already been a problem that scholarship has tried to 
address.

For a relatively recent riff on it (the problem, not the presumption..), I 
suggest this coverweb from Kairos:

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/coverweb/wide/index.html

Literacy and medium concerns are a very, very old problem.

--e