Literacy vs. fluency vs. compentency

I found a few things interesting in the reading we did about Kate Williams' study on computer literacy, one of which I would like to look at closer. Let me know if anyone else had this idea or came to this conclusion.

Firstly, I agree that our world has evolved technologically to the point that we are or should be considered to be a network society. If not, someone's living under a rock. Technology touches almost every aspect of our lives. It is unavoidable in many ways. We are very much connected through the technologies that surround us.

People say that computers are supposed to make life easier. In order for that to happen, however, your life needs to get harder; you need to work to become fluent and gain the knowledge you need to use the technology.

I thought the majority of the eleven theses made a lot of sense. I tried to pull examples for each of them in order to fully understand how they would come to that decision, but that became challenging.

Something that really stuck out to me was the word "policy" when they were talking about the crisis in literacy theory that can be resolved. When I think of a policy, I think of laws and that it must be followed by everyone it immediately effects.

It clearly states that more research needs to be done in terms of what people are doing now. The history of this, like anything, will always changing.

And for the record, MNF at Applebees's is dead slow tonight, but my boneless wings were delish! Thanks April!