Full Description
There is a growing disconnect between the way schools teach and students learn. Today's student lives and learns primarily in an electronic culture. The educational community must understand that the current model for teaching and learning is predicated upon a culture of print that has lasted 500 years. This book offers an understanding of how our emerging culture impacts learning. Features: * Discusses how inventions and innovations in communication technologies have been received through history * Provides a perspective for understanding the electronic culture that is emerging because of advances in communication technologies * Compares and contrasts a print-based and electronic culture * Explores how the computer is radically altering the writing process as well as our understanding of what is text For anyone interested in literacy, cultural studies, or contemporary culture.
Contents
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1 The Dangerous 3Rs Chapter 5 2 Vulgar Pictorialism Chapter 6 3 From Morse Code to Memex Chapter 7 4 Books and Bytes: When Two Cultures Collide Chapter 8 5 The Electronic Papyrus Chapter 9 6 The Decline of Developmentalism Chapter 10 7 Redefining Literacy in a Post-Typographic World Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author
