Throughout Hobbs “The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement”, I could not help but think about the lack of objective standard of what good writing should be. We as educators should have a goal that we desire our…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Redefining Literacy
by Ryan • • 0 Comments
The inability to use a computer–for communication or commerce, or even for personal enjoyment–can severely limit one’s ability to function in today’s world. In short, being illiterate has to do with lacking communication skills, and those skills are no longer…
Personal Use of Tech Narrative
by Kim De Vries • • 11 Comments
We have been talking about different uses of technology, how it relates to literacy, and the way it impacts our lives in helpful or detrimental ways. You have been writing about how you use technology, and have been gaining more…
Emergence of Writing as a Key Player
by lminnis209 • • 1 Comment
Writing programs have waited a long time to be considered as important as Literature studies. Many faculty who have taught writing have been nontenurable track employees because writing is considered the low man on the totem pole. Writing is thought…
Please sir, may I have more Simpsons?
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In my blog this week, I took issue with Hobb’s “The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement,” specifically her third issue– “Should media literacy have a pop culture bias?” I felt that Hobbs was really oversimplifying the two…