“Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project” argues that five key issues are at stake in the new media, including identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation. While all issues contain…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Follow the “Rhetoric” Road
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
Computer literacy entails more than sitting a student in front of a computer. It entails more than turning the machine on and viewing Facebook or checking email…or even, typing a word document. I agree with Stuart A. Selber in “Reimagining Computer…
What Really Happens When You Contact Tech. Support
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
This is a brilliant post by one of my favorite web comics, XKCD. This one is #627.
Technological Agency
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
“The iPhone… is sterile. Rather than a platform that invites innovation, the iPhone comes preprogrammed. So too with the Internet,…designed to accept any contribution that followed a basic set of rules.” Both, “tethered to a network of control.” The preceding…
Social Bookmarking tools
by aarias1 • • 0 Comments
Aaron Arias English 5010 Dr. Devries Fall 2007 Social Bookmarking tools Computers are a way of life in the educational setting, unfortunately there a too few teachers who can successfully integrate computer technology effectively in the classroom (1). What Selber…
Internet Freedom
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
In Zittrain’s book, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It” the author looks at the internet from a global perspective. The chapter I enjoyed reading that gave startling clarity as to where the internet could be headed…
English Teachers Unite: Making Our Voices Heard in the Technology Debate
by chayden • • 0 Comments
After digesting the interview from Rheingold and reading Selber’s “Reimagining Computer Literacy”, it has become abudantly clear that English teachers need to take a leading role in the manufacturing of expectations and standards of literacy in the 21st Century. Postman’s words seem to…
With Great Power, Comes Great (Ir)Responsibility
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In Selber’s “Reimagining Computer Literacy,” he makes some very good points about computer literacy as it currently stands and what it could be in the future. One thing I noticed in both Selber and then in Rheingold’s interview “Shifts of…
Adding the human[ities] touch to computer interfaces
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
In “Reimagining Computer Literacy,” Stuart Selber urges educators in the humanities and liberal arts to have input into human-computer interface design. These educators represent a major resource for uncovering the unexamined features in the human-computer interface that shape “how students…
Another Big Purse?
by Mariana • • 2 Comments
When I read and watched the information on Burell’s site about diigo I was instantly in love with it. I am the type of person who loves her books, magazines and various other resources and I keep them all if…