In his article, "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies," Dennis Baron illustrates how literacy technologies have been developing through time. He argues that new technologies have always been rejected at first because they were unknown by people and that even writing itself was rejected too. People also had to adjust to these technologies. For instance, they had to learn how to talk the phone. These technologies become, as Deborah Brant would call them, literacy sponsors because they influence the way people communicate. He also explains how literacy has changed due to the new technologies, starting with the invention of writing itself which "was once an innovation strongly resisted by traditionalists because it was unnatural and untrustworthy" (426).
GETTING READY TO READ
1. Technology is everything people create to satisfy their needs and improve his well-being. For example, a house is a kind of technology created to protect people from the environment.
APPLYING AND EXPLORING IDEAS
2. I think it would be really helpful to improve grammar checking in writing technology. I don't even know if that exists but, being a ESL student, I know it would help me a lot in my writing processes.
I believe the article was interesting until certain point. The topic is good and well developed but I think that there's no need to spend that much time to explain the history of pencils. On the other hand I like the way he explains that we never know what technology is going to come out with in the future just like years ago people didn't know computers would ever exist.
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