Colleagues,

Can you read fluently? Of course, you say. But maybe not. Although I  
meant, can you read text, I also meant, can you read screens? Very  
few of us can. Some of our younger students are more screen literate  
than we are. Is screen literacy important? If getting to meaning, and  
to the truth, is important, screen literacy is as important -- some  
would argue more important -- than reading. However, "If text  
literacy meant being able to parse and manipulate texts, then the new  
screen fluency means being able to parse and manipulate moving images  
with the same ease. But so far, these 'reader' tools of visuality  
have not made their way to the masses."

I hope I have tantalized you to read this short and fascinating  
article on screen literacy by New York Times writer Kevin Kelley:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html?_r=1

I would also like to invite you, when you read -- or see -- something  
that we in technology and literacy might be interested in, to post  
the URL to this discussion list. If we are a community of practice on  
this discussion list,  then let's help each other to learn new  
things, think in new ways.

Your thoughts on the article?

David J. Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com