Technology and literacy in the twenty-first century
Subtitle: the importance of paying attention
By: Cynthia L. Selfe ; with a foreword by Hugh Burns
Series: Studies in writing & rhetoric
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Computers and literacy -- United States; Technological literacy -- United States; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century.".

"To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changed - at fundamentally important levels - the definition of literacy and the practices recognized as constituting literate behavior in America.

Selfe tries to identify the effects of this new literacy agenda, focusing specifically on what she calls "serious and shameful" inequities it fosters in our culture and in the public education system: among them, the continuing presence of racism, poverty, and illiteracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index