The challenge for educators today is to help designers become the masters, not the slaves, of technology. There exist opportunities to seize control intellectually and economically of the means of production and to share that control with the reading public, empowering them to become producers as well as consumers of meaning. Language is a raw material. Enhance students' verbal literacy, giving them the confidence to work with and as editors without forcing them to become writers.
Theory is a practice.
Foster literacy by integrating the humanities into the studio. Infuse the act of making with the act of thinking. Writing is a tool. Technology is physical. Whether the product of our work is printed on paper or emitted from a screen, designers deal with the human, material response to information.