Everything falling into place so far?

Looks great, thanks for putting this together!

Lol nice, got in the group. I was starting to get worried since its the last day and all. I'll send my bit soon, thanks everyone for being active.

By proper definition of Literacy, the ability to read and write. There is no doubt that technology has had its effects, however the relation between literacy and technology can be confused very easily. The methods may have changed over the decades of how we gather information but the skills needed to absorb that information is still a primary function of what being literate really is. By studies it has been shown that technology as easy as it is to obtain information, is often also the main distraction that hinders performances when it comes to reading and comprehension. One of these studies at UCLA compared the scores of two groups of students, one with internet access who were encourages to use it during lectures and students who did not have access. The students who did not have internet access scored higher.

We must give ourselves time to reflect any information read and really think about the context at hand, technology places the gap between the traditional book and watching a film based on a book, think of it in the sense of any book you have read that's been made into a movie. Which depiction is clearly more detailed and deep? Not to say it's a bad thing to enjoy the movies but reading the books on many films shows how much more there is to a story than a 2-3 hour featured film can process, of course not everyone will agree.

The statement here being, technology can be effective however it lacks the essential mind exercising needed to develop the most basic of reading and comprehension skills. Therefore technology has NOT contributed to an increase in literacy skills but instead provides more access to information, which are two completely different things. Critical thinking and reflection are important processes that lack in visual literacy when compared to printed literacy as it gives us less time to really analyze.



Sources:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/is-technology-producing-a-decline-79127.aspx

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v4n2/waetjen.jte-v4n2.html

Appreciate any feedback on my statement, correct me if I'm wrong here.

I think FullSailConnects board is a little buggy so im unable to see everything right now. Noticed there isn't anything about a name or logo for our team yet, anyone ideas?
I was thinking earlier a name lik e"Oldschool" or "Oldskool", just seems fitting to me but what do you guys think?