Mark, I had the same question about the specific focus, but I second Doug's suggestions for a general "technology and literacy" course. In a similar course here at UIUC, undergraduate students wrote articles based on their projects. Some of these eventually appeared as guest entries for a column I edited for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. The collection is available in book form, and (mostly) online <http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/lia/>. _Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries Into Meaning Making With New Technologies_ (2003) Bertram (Chip) Bruce Professor, Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., MC 493 Champaign, IL 61820 http://www.uiuc.edu/~chip 217-244-3576 On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Douglas Eyman wrote:
Mark,
I'm wondering if you mean the use of technology to study literacies, technology-supported literate activities, or techno-literacies such as information literacy?
Ilana Snyder has edited two collections that might be useful for a general "technology and literacy" course that hits each of these approaches:
_Page to Screen; Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age_ (1997) and _Silicon Literacies; Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age_ (2002)
Gunther Kress's _Literacy in the New Media Age_ (2002) would be appropriate for an advanced undergraduate course; he takes issue with applying the "literacy" label to processes other than reading and writing alphabetic texts, which is a key question for technology/literacy studies.
For an accessible text that focuses primarily on gaming (and that can be used in a variety of interesting ways), there's Jim Gee's _What Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy_ (2004).
Finally, Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe's _Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives on Literacy from the United States_ (2004).
The above list of texts comes mostly from the fields of literacy studies and computers and writing.
Doug
Douglas Eyman, Senior Co-Editor Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy htp://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
Mark Warschauer wrote:
Can anybody recommend a text on Technology and Literacy to be used for an undergraduate course on the topic to be taught in spring 2007?
Thanks-- Mark
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