I don't have skype, but I'll make myself available tomorrow at whatever time is best for everybody else. I agree with Jana though, that Adria might be the best person to submit the assignment. Can we do a chat?

Gotta go to a GoToTraining "Extra Session" hosted by Eddie Tapia, our instructor 10:00am...just about now. Talk later!

Thanks Moriah, I'm in the process of adding you!

A reminder from the instructor to put your name on source articles you contributed to the debate. I just left the Go To Training session.

During my research I came across a number of books and articles which suggests that traditional literacy (books, journals, magazines, etc.) and media literacy (internet, mobile text & chat, blogs, etc.) are different type of literacies and therefore one does not enhance the other, but breaks away from it and we all have to develop new skills to learn media literacy. So is learning a new literacy enhancing the old one?

I've been trying to formulate some additional ideas in support of this argument, but I'm not there yet, so still working on it.

This is a report written by Sonia Livingstone and based on research that calls into question whether "the literacies required for today's communication and information environment an extension of, or a radical break with, past traditions of knowledge and learning?"

Yeah, a case can certainly be made that technology is more a convenience than an enhancement, but obviously this view has to be supported. And I agree with you Jana, that being able to take this course via technology is more of a convenience than an enhancement. Hope we make this deadline :-)

This release by UCLA newsroom sheds light on a study and quotes Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles as saying that "Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," among other statements she makes in the study.