“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…
English 5010
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…
English 5010
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…
Classes, English 5010
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…
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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…
English 5010
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…