Dialetical Journal-From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies (Dennis Baron)
"The computer, the latest development in writing technology, promises, or threatens, to change literacy practices for better or worse, depending on your point of view."
-These days we rely on technology for just about anything. For some this is a good thing, and for others this is a bad thing. Like said in this quote, it is all dependent on your point of view. When writing a paper, you can sit down with a pen and paper or you can sit down at the computer. Personally, I sit down at the computer, so in my opion technology is changing literacy for the better. This has a lot to do with the generatrion in which we were raised. Literacy is in a constant change and we must adapt.
"The computer is also touted as a gateway to literacy."
-With the groewing technology that we are provided with in our everyday lives, it has become easier to access reading and writing through technology. We no longer have to get ourselves to the library or book store to get a book. So many books can be found online, causing the computer to be our gateway to literacy.
"Whether it consists of energized particles on a screen or ink embedded in paper or lines gouged into clay tablets, writing itself is always first and foremost a technology, a way of engineering materials in order to accomplish an end."
-Writing is essentially us taking the ideas in our head and creating something. Through our writing we are acomplishing something, just as technology does. However, writing came before all of our many technologies we have today.
"While brave new literacy technologies offer new opportunities for producting and manipulating text, they also present new opportunities for fraud."
-All of the technologies we have open us up to a number of opportunites. However, with everything being put online these days it is easy to find other people's works to copy and paste into your own. We have the easy answer to writers block at the tips of our fingers so we must learn to work around this.
"The pencil may be old, but like the computer today and the telegraph in 1849, it is an indisputable example of communication technology."
-We always have to start somewhere with technology and it is constantly growing. Before we had computers, we have a pencil and paper. Simple as that.
"The development of the pencil is also a paradigm of the development of literacy."
-A pencil is technology, when technology grows, literacy grows. Technology and literacy work together to develop and grow everyday.
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