2 papers

this is due modnday night 11 MARCH 2013  by 1130 pm

CASE:

In this assignment, you will write about your use of literacy skills and communications technologies  in your everyday life.  The focus is on your present use — do NOT write about your PAST use of these skills and technologies , as that’s the topic for the next assignment, SLP 2. 

 Don’t forget that communication technology spans a wide spectrum, from wooden pencils to Skype.

Assignment:

· Write four or five pages describing your literacy practices today. How much do you read and write each day? What kinds of communication technologies are you using in your daily life?  How frequently, and how much, do you use each of them?

Expectations

· Write four page essay that discusses your literacy practices and uses of communications technologies today (right now).

· Use the narrative strategies that you have already learned.

· Research your own literacy practices; in other words, look at your own behavior carefully, then report it accurately.

SLP:

The Session-Long Project builds from your Case assignment. Here you want to extend and expand your Case assignment by including more history of your literacy practices and prior uses to communication technologies. Read Dennis Baron’s piece: “From Pencils to Pixels.” Pay attention to how he describes the history of the pencil and telephone. Consider how technologies you have learned to use were once thought to be cumbersome or would never work and/or how they were received by the general public at their first inception. Think carefully about how you came to learn to read and write and how you came to use communication technology over the years. This essay should be different from the Case assignment in the sense that it should focus more on your history rather than on what communication technologies or literacy practices you are using today. This essay should focus on how those practices were shaped by your family, experiences, education, peers, etc. What was the culture in your home concerning literacy, reading, writing, and technology use? At some schools, students are making videos or creating visual presentations to represent their technological literacy narratives. Be sure to view the optional reading material (there are two videos to watch). Here you will write a four-five page technological literacy narrative.

Assignment:

· Read Baron’s “From Pencils to Pixels.”

http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/pencils.htm

· Write a four-five page technological literacy narrative

Expectations:

· Read “From Pencils to Pixels.”

· Write four page technological literacy narrative that discusses both how you have come to learn to read and write

· Consider both your present (drawing from your Case assignment) and past experiences with writing, literacy, and communication technologies

· Cite any outside sources you decide to use