Brandt response

“Revolutions in communication technology; and the growth of print culture so saturating that it has become a principal means by which some children learn to talk.”

“The piling up and and extending out of literacy and its technologies give a complex flavor event to elementary acts of reading and writing today.”

“What we calculate as a rising standard of basic literacy may be more usefully regarded as the effects of a rapid proliferation and diversification of literacy.”

These statements have been pulled out of the Brandt-Accumulating article because I feel like this is the genre of literacy I started school in. The growth of communication technology is how many children express themselves. A students expressions could be written in a blog and online communication sites. For college students a way of expression is acted through online class discussion boards. This gives flexibility for the shy students to truly learn how to talk and be heard leading to an effect of rapid growth and spreading of literacy.These literacy and technologies can also bring a complicated twist to elementary acts of reading and writing today because slang terms and improper statements could be considered acceptable on personal online blog/communication rooms. The literacy fear in this is that people will forget how to write a socially acceptable literate sentence.

I thought it was interesting when Brandt talked about church-dominated societies. People could only read in order to learn the right behavior. The social view went from an avenue to morality into an indication of moral behavior. Schools today still practice this idea of “reading to learn the right behavior” because students read to learn how to write the right way; the way society wants it to be.