Our World Today

Clive Thompson’s article on “The New Literacy” did hit me in some ways but also was just like any other old article talking about the same things everyone else says. Things like Facebook, Myspace, and Text messaging, and saying that we pay more attention to digital learning then to real hands on classroom learning. I this case I would have to side with Clive. When we use that kind of technology, we automatically lose all literacy in what were writing. We forget all about punctuation, spelling, etc. and that can affect students in the classroom. It also shies us away from learning how talk to an audience instead of one individual person. If we took as much time on our writing prompts and essays then we do our texts and IM’s our scores and skills will increase. But, having all of this new technology shown to us (by the author who’s name escapes my name right now) and seeing how fast and how much it’s changing, makes us want more. And this makes it harder to be better at writing and harder for teens to keep away from it all. At the same time, all this technology is putting a lot stress on people and can be a scary thing. Because we have all this, people expect that what we write and do should be close to perfect and that is not the case. Seeing how fast the technology is growing so much that one day things could go terribly wrong and maybe one day technology will take over and would have created our own humanity death. Although I am a victim of using texts and Facebook, I know that taking advantage of my writing probably will affect me. That’s why I agree with Clive and his theory of the new literacy.