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Literacy is found in the pen’s ink!!!

August 20, 2008

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The digital era is well and truley upon us. Many issues have arised due to the relationship between education and technology. Tania’s blog raises the issue of literacy as an impact of this relationship.  In the workplace our communication exists through emails, powerpoint presentations and shared drives to store and access all work material. The majority of university work requires our pens to remain firmly in our back pockets as assignment work is all processed via the ever accessible campus computers or personal laptops. So why do we ask our students to be assessed based on their use of the pen’s ink???? In reference to an associated article, i believe that the pen is our last hope for literacy in secondary school education. Computers and additional technology can provide a base for supplementary learning, but students need to know how to write and spell in an effective manner that can be read and make sense. The thought of computers taking over books in the classroom and computer based exams should be thrown straight back into the rubbish where it belongs.

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