Literacy to me is the ability to read and write. Those are 2/3 of what it takes to communicate with other people (the third is obviously talking). If you can’t read and write things get pretty tough for you. Yet in our digital age we are running into an age that reading and writing might not be as popular or even necessary now with books on IPods news weather and sports are using video rather than traditional articles. Schools are not teaching their students things like grammar or how to properly address mail or letters. Traditional methods of communication are going digital. But it is necessary that we learn digital composition. As much as that pains me and as much as I hate E-mail and Blackboard it is necessary to understand digital composition because we are entering a digital age where we as a species are depending more and more on computers. Yes literacy maybe the ability to read and write but you must keep up with how information is being distributed, how the writings are being distributed because if you don’t then you will be left in the dark. Oh and yes I still hate blackboard and E-mail.
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I agree with you entirely! I HATE try to use blackboard! There is so much information everywhere and I find it difficult to keep track of it all. I think that it is important to know how to do things in the traditional way…you never know what may happen…but I must agree with you that in this time when things are going digital, it is important for schools to teach how to do that. That is more practical skills for them to learn because that is what they are going to be required to use in the future. So while I know how to send emails, I hate it and still send hand-written thank-you cards!
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