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Technology Has Contributed To A Decline In Literacy Skills.pdf - 1 views

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    Rough start for an argument that technology has led to a decline in social literacy.
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Technology and Damage to Literacy - 1 views

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  • However, our dependency on technology can also make us lazy. Why bother to strain our eyes reading when the television will tell us about important occurrences and entertain us? Why write a letter when your family member or friend can be talked to directly over the telephone? Avoiding the practice of certain literacies will eventually lower the level of one's literacy. To avoid decreasing levels of literacy caused by technology certain precautions must be taken.
  • Hirsch says that in order to be culturally literate one only needs to know a certain amount of specific ideas. If there are 5,000 ideas that when known are adequate for understanding a culture then if it were easy to look up these 5,000 ideas on demand the culture would be understood. Raskin proposes that a computer could store a list of these ideas along with descriptions making "it easy for an uncultured person encountering one of the expressions to look it up in the database and get the general picture" ( Raskin, p. 202). Hirsch believes that schools provide the common background, but if a database of cultural references existed then schools would not need teach what the students already have easy access to. The schools could teach the students how to use the database and the students would never need to become culturally literate.
  • Technology does have the potential to destroy cultural, literacy but that is only if cultural literacy depends on a select group of ideas as Hirsch believes it does. The select group of ideas important to a society must also exist before technology can make memorizing the list pointless. It is only possible for students to be taught so much information in their academic lives and for all schools to collaborate and decide what should be taught would be impossible
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  • . So if a student of a certain race can become literate independent of what culture he is from then literacy must depend on education. Schools teach the literacy skills needed to compete for jobs: "in modern societies the school is the principal institution adapting children to bureaucratized industrial economy" ( Ogbu, p. 32). If a group of students is not receiving a fair education then that group will not be able to compete in the work-force. If the discontinuities in education are fixed then literacy will improve for the groups which were being hurt. Ogbu has a strength in that he believes that educational institutions provide means for later survival but he also makes it seem like our schools are unfair and it is impossible for everyone to get a good education
  • However, as technology continues to improve the imbalances will only increase. The schools which have adequate money will be able to buy computers and other technology which improves education.
  • Schools located in poor, predominately minority areas such as the schools in Ogbu's examples would be likely to not have adequate money for new technologies. If other students are benefiting from being taught from computers and also are becoming computer literate, a skill applicable in the work-place, then the students lacking technologies will not be able to compete outside of school. The fortunate students will have a definite advantage and the unfortunate students will be even further behind.
  • Technology does have the potential of damaging literacy. If Hirsch is correct about cultural literacy depending on a certain set of ideas then technology may advance to the point where we can use databases constantly and not need have as much knowledge as we do now. If Hirsch is wrong then we will not need to worry about technology destroying that literacy. Raskin says that computer teachers may result in negative results. Computer teachers can be optimized and once an optimum computer is developed it would be easy to distribute duplicates. The drawback is that students do not need to develop social skills to interact with a computer and may even be damaged from this lack of human interaction. To prevent this, schools should not use computer teaching a majority of the time. Ogbu is concerned about all students receiving an equal education and if computers can aid education, either in teaching fundamental subjects or in teaching computer literacy, then students who have access to this technology will be advantaged. To ensure equality, government programs could supply schools with fair levels of technology. Technology may be able to damage education or literacy but if technology is monitored it can be used to aid education and literacy in great ways.
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Activity 2.4 Misinformation Debate Team B Ware - 3 views

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  • jbrim86 on 06 Oct 14
     
    Articles that refute: "Technology through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet), has contributed to an increase in literacy skills." Team B Ware (Due Thursday Oct. 9, 2014).
  • jbrim86 on 06 Oct 14
     
    This article is from the University of California - Los Angeles, which will help prove credibility. 
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