My experiences with literacy technologies began when I was three years old. My mom taught me how to hold a pencil and start to doodle. I first used a computer when i was eight years old, my grandparents had and old computer, (I don't know why they never used it) I remember just playing around with it and typing random words. The first time I had a computer class was when I was in eighth grade. I learned to type and do reports on the computer. The first time I ever started texting on my phone was in 2008 when i got unlimited texting on my phone. I had/have a phone with a keyboard on it.
The illustrations help you understand that writing has been around for a very long time. I think it contributes to his article a great deal. Baron is showing how long writing has been around and the different technologies that have be invented to help literacy. I understand the illustrations as writing. At least I believe them to be writing. Writing has been around a long time and who really knows what people made a symbols to indicate what they were talking about. I believe you could add them to the list of technologies for writing and literacy, it seems like writing to me.
Yeah, I wish I would have started out with a phone with a full keyboard on it, but I learned on how to text my freshman year of high school, and I actually had to learn how to text. I figured it out. Great post!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked where you were coming from. Baron was showing us how long writing has been around for. When i was reading the article i don't remember taking that into consideration. Nice job
ReplyDeleteFrom the way that you put it, you really could look at them as if they were writing. They have been around for a while and who does really know what writing really meant back than. Good point.
ReplyDeleteYou captured the point of the pencil history well. In respect to technology, I felt that it was an example of how far back writing really goes. And, I also believe writing goes back even further as you mentioned, to a time when pictures were the form of writing. Well done in your explanation.
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