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... Ed . Gail E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc . Portsmouth : Boynton , 1992. 115–30 . Bush , Vannevar . “ As We May Think . ” Atlantic Monthly 176.1 ( 1945 ) : 641–649 . Rpt . in From Memex to Hypertext : Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine . Ed ...Synopsis
Multiliteracies for a Digital Age serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies. Stuart A. Selber also proposes methods for helping students move among these literacies in strategic ways. Defining computer literacy as a domain of writing and communication, Selber addresses the questions that few other computer literacy texts consider: What should a computer literate student be able to do? What is required of literacy teachers to educate such a student? How can functional computer literacy fit within the values of teaching writing and communication as a profession? Reimagining functional literacy in ways that speak to teachers of writing and communication, he builds a framework for computer literacy instruction that blends functional, critical, and rhetorical concerns in the interest of social action and change. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age reviews the extensive literature on computer literacy and critiques it from a humanistic perspective. This approach, which will remain useful as new versions of computer hardware and software inevitabBook Details
Published
January 23, 2004
Publisher
SIU Press
Pages
288
ISBN
9780809325511