I think the answer to the people (sometimes me) who complain about a loss of literacy is becoming apparent. Surely communication via the printed or spoken word is more intense now than ever. Voicemail or texting, blogs, podcasts, videocasts, all mix commentary with other forms of communication in exciting ways. Teenage bloggers often write far more creatively in their personal blogs than they do in the classroom. Jokes, puns, topical allusion, cynical/rueful aside, heartfelt commentary, angry denunciation, bursts of poetry or apposite quotation are all present in many of these often lengthy letters to the world.
Archive for February, 2006
Jot 2 Motoliterate
Monday, February 27th, 2006Jot 1 A Burnt Out Case
Saturday, February 18th, 2006Graham Greene characters usually seemed to agonise about their loss of faith. Lately I am feeling their pain - despite being an atheist. I feel that traditional (yes, hehe) ICT teaching is beginning to miss the point (as the point is very much changing). I also feel that a lot  of the commercial software we peddle is over complex and can only be accessed by pupils at home by piracy anyway as it is way to expensive for their parental pockets. (Think of MS Office, or Macromedia Studio at commercial rates! Oh and yes, I do ritually explain about how piracy is wrong, but I still accept their homework and ask no questions…) So the 24 hour learning by doing that is the logic of ICT now is not going to happen that way.
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