Tuesday, January 18, 2011

An Interesting View on the "Literacy Revolution"

In the following video, Angela Lunsford discusses the "Literacy Revolution" and the myths of digital literacy. Angela is the director or writing and rhetoric at stanford University and she shares the findings of a study conducted on Stanford students. The video is a little lengthy but her discussion is very interseting. I do not believe anyone in my discussion group mentioned digital literacy as it pertains to college students. Angela discusses Twitter, Facebook, and blogging among other topics. She proposes the idea of "life writing" that bridges web tools and writing skills. *Note - the video is from YouTube so it may be prevented from showing at school.