Technology and literacy in the twenty-first century : the importance of paying attention / Cynthia L. Selfe ; with a foreword by Hugh Burns.
Selfe, Cynthia L., 1951-
1999
LC149.5 .S45 1999 (Mapit)
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Title Technology and literacy in the twenty-first century : the importance of paying attention / Cynthia L. Selfe ; with a foreword by Hugh Burns.
Author Selfe, Cynthia L., 1951-
ISBN 9780809322695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809322692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.
Language English
Description xxiii, 182 p. 23 cm.
Call Number LC149.5 .S45 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.33/4
Summary "Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century." "To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changed - at fundamentally important levels - the definition of literacy and the practices recognized as constituting literate behavior in America. Selfe tries to identify the effects of this new literacy agenda, focusing specifically on what she calls "serious and shameful" inequities it fosters in our culture and in the public education system: among them, the continuing presence of racism, poverty, and illiteracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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Literacy and technology linked
The problem of polemic
The role of government
The role of education
The role of business and industry
The role of parents
The role of ideology
Paying attention to technology, learning about literacy
Working for a change.

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