Technology Project

A LAST RESORT: AN ACADEMIC/TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FAILURE & FALSEHOODS or HOW I TO STOPPED WIXING AND LEARNED TO ACTOR NETWORK THEORY The following is a documented meta-crisis of trying to create a Wix site that can help explain my understanding and confusions surrounding Actor Network Theory in tandem with my technological failures. From […]

Literacy Pedagogy

How should literacy pedagogy respond to today’s technological world and to today’s digital learners? I believe literacy pedagogy should draw upon the acquired literacy of the learners. This means that learners have, through their home environments, been participating in literacy practices that have shaped how they make meaning of text and communicate meaning through texts. […]

Tech Literacy

What sort of literacy is needed in the digital age? When thinking about this subject, I can’t help but think about the how literacies are acquired or learned. Not being a digital native, much of what people would consider tech literacy (participation in digital discourses) I learned in college. By learned, I mean that I […]

Literacy Narrative

One of the earliest literacy memories I have is going to the library while visiting my grandparents’ home for a week in the summer in northwest Georgia. Every summer, my sisters and I would be driven by my parents in a faux-wood paneled Caravan from northeastern Ohio. To me, the end of the twelve-hour journey […]

24 Hours Tech Free

My experience of going tech free for twenty-four hours was heavenly. When given the assignment, my only concern was that my wife and kids a couple states away would be made aware and that I could arrange to tell my kids a bedtime story (which I recorded pre-tech free and texted to my wife.) Once everything was […]

Time Travel and Technology

How has our relationship to technology changed over time? One striking comparison to be made between the two film versions of The Time Machine is the purpose of the development of new technology. The time machine in the 1960 film version is the result of a man following his curiosity and passion for new knowledge, without […]

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