“The Future of Literacy” raised some very interesting points about how our perception of literacy is constantly evolving. Having been born in the 90’s and experienced various forms of digital media my entire life, I find this very interesting. I would say my experiences are closest that of Brittney Moraski. Just like her, I was exposed to computers and technology at a very young age, and both our parents encouraged us to learn with it. I remember as a small child playing video games on the computer whose goal it was to teach me reading, writing, math and other subjects. In addition, as early as first grade, there was definitely technology integration in my public school experience.
Just like Brittney, I had parents who were fairly well educated and strongly encouraged us to learn. In addition, it seems as though I grew up at a time, when technology was becoming much more strongly integrated into education, and society as a whole. Now days, I feel very old compared to current high school students merely because I remember floppy disks and dial-up internet. Along with an encouragement from my parents to learn using technology and alternate forms of literacy, we also had the resources that allowed me to do this. As far as I can remember, we have owned a computer. Both the encouragement from my parents as well as the access to this sort of technology influenced how I have developed my literacy.
No comments:
Post a Comment