An article discussing the Internet as being more than just a medium. It has the ability to create change.
A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
Excerpts from the printed book _The Gutenberg Elegies_ by Sven Birkerts. Concerning the ways language and thought change together in a little dance.
As we enter a new millennium, the technology that we use to communicate with each other is proceeding at a fantastic pace. The key questions for us as educators are how is this technology best used to benefit our students, and how will this new technology affect them and their futures?
A historical perspective on the growth of electronic communication. Offers examples from Socrates to Martin Luther of how technology influences human interaction.
This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.
The present paper describes factors that have facilitated the transformation of industrial societies to information and network societies; the possibilities of virtual school as a future-oriented school form; the tools of the new information and communication technology; and global networking as a framework for the learning environment.
Geoffrey Nunberg reviews the history and politics surrounding the digitization of libraries.
This article discusses a new definition of literacy which states, "Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of forms." The concept of "text" is expanded to include messages of all sorts.
Article which discusses literacy in a broad, historical sense, and lists seven dimensions of literacy.
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