Thursday, April 8, 2010

in class quiz

If I had to label my research for my core 3 and core 4 papers as either fact or definition, I would say that there is definitely a little of both combined in my papers. In these two core papers my goal was to define what digital literacy is and determine if your when you started learning it would help or hinder when trying to become fluent in it. At first i did not fully understand the difference between the definition and the facts of being digitally literate until I started reading examples from our outside readings. In “Malcom X” In this reading Malcom is simply explaining his battle to become overall literate while also being incarcerated. He explains how at first he could not really read well at all but by the end of his prison sentence he was very fluent in the English language simply by reading and writing the words down from a dictionary. This example would be a totally different style of writing if he was arguing for how one should become literate. If he stated that the only way one could become literate was by reading and then writing what the read in a journal than this would have been more of a fact based argument paper. In my paper as stated before I stated what i believed digital literacy was when I said that it is more than just being able to turn on a computer and operate the simple basic functions of a computer such as an email or playing solitaire, but that it was being able to do such things as diagnosing a problem and knowing how to take care of it for example. Also know how to fully use a computer to work for you to your advantage to achieve a goal such as something for your job or for school. I also argued that I believe if you take my generation, for example, and notice how there is a great divide where many kids my age are very digitally literate and can do all of the things mentioned like diagnosing a technological problem and know how to fix it, (not just in computers but in any form of technology), and there are also kids like me who don’t quite have the gift of being able to do that. I believe one of the main reasons for this is because of how we are raised. When taught at a very young age how to interact with technology even at its barest form, this creates a curiosity in us at this young age. When one is curious, they usually have a desire to learn and therefore do become more digitally literate easier. So this is why I say that my paper is a combination of both styles of writing because of the fact that I try to explain what digital literacy can be interpreted as, and also one major reason why I believe some have the ability and desire to become much more fluent in this area than others.

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