I started to wonder with all these dynamic progressive innovations that lead to the revolutionary use of computer technology over the passed three-decades if students today read literature off the computer like I had read off those favorite outside magazine rack sources. Most local folks I know have dramatically moved forward to face passionate lifestyles and connect to some part of this global society. I think the rise of computers and the rise of networking in the market place today has transformed a good part of those old bayer aspirin candy store cultures. I know that I string along moving toward being a native computer user and record a significant share of measured observations. These are recognitions from the modernizations new intelligences expose from old media and musical sounds. I now rejoice about new meanings discovered from a technology perspective. We faced a no brainier situation, we are forced to construct and learn with the computer. These perceptions are said to have caused cyber phobia, where technological advances seem to encroach on reality, and those migrant non-user thoughts compare electronics to that of the invented Frankenstein. I think these skeptics are caught in a time vortex of machinery anxiety and not in a selfish monster, probably, because those were probably non subscribers to sports illustrate or road and track back when it counted. Now with this emergence of old medium toward new understandings from prior knowledge we find a realignment (what was to what is) that redefines and remakes customs to replace those familiar corner store memories. To think and to communicate computer influences allows us to learn from a virtual cornucopia of new interests. Reading, writing, listening thinking and sensing become their own entity and mental functions that individually speak out and say I should revisit, revised and engaged in responses to what I have comprehended and participated in the technology that has brought us out of the ice age. What does it mean to be literate? What kind of literacy makes life all right? The future is ours to see and this may be well grounded in how we learn to prune that ever-expanding technological tree.
[...] November 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment Back in the old high school teen days there was the daily stop at the corner candy store, where I read some books and magazines about flying machines and automobiles and conspired to account for the true spirit of love, passion, and romance of learning. I often talked with friends about the readings I liked best and asked them what their thoughts were before I went off to school. This collection of outside materials, I believe, was fun and I preferred them somehow to being strung along with the schools often bored assigned texts. Oh God, I’m afraid, I’ll cut, better not, parents and friends assume for some reason I want to come.Read [...]