Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Relations of Literacy and Technology

"How does literacy shape technology? How does technology shape literacy?"

These two quetions seem to be almost the same, but I think the answers would be different even though they have definitely influenced each other all the time. First of all, technology is one kind of literacy, which also contains understanding, knowing and operating. As the rapid development of everything, people start to unsatisfied with the speed of their literacy promotion by brains. This pressure really pushes the technology advancing. For example, webwork came out because people want to understand the world more easilier and clearly. Hence, technology development is base on literacy promotion.

However, as far as I am concerned, the influence by technology is specific. Even though new technology also accelerate the literacy promotion of the world, literacy is still literacy. For example, ancient people write text by stones then people used pens in latter-day and we use computers to type the texts now. However, the texts are always the same. The difference is the way to understand and write so technology can not change the literacy.

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