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Digital Immortal - Article by Robert Lucky (pdf) questioning the continuing dominance of information technology. Original manuscript title: "Information Technology: Will This Too, Pass?"
 
Educational Technology Timeline - A timeline running from 40,000 BC to 2203 AD linking to important events in the development of educational technologies.
 
Expanding the concept of literacy - This article discusses a new definition of literacy which states, "Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a variety of forms." The concept of "text" is expanded to include messages of all sorts.
 
Information Literacy:A Clarification - This article begins with a brief overview of the concept of literacy. It then focuses on a series of definitions that deal with an expanding notion of literacies, and finally refocuses on information literacy.
 
Literacy in the Information Age - As we enter a new millennium, the technology that we use to communicate with each other is proceeding at a fantastic pace. The key questions for us as educators are how is this technology best used to benefit our students, and how will this new technology affect them and their futures?
 
Orality, Literacy, and the Future of Computer-Mediated Communication - A historical perspective on the growth of electronic communication. Offers examples from Socrates to Martin Luther of how technology influences human interaction.
 
Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology - This site created by Dennis Baron at the University of Illinois presents how new communication technologies go through various stages similar to those of the pencil. He states, "The computer has indeed changed the ways some of us do things with words, and the rapid changes in technological development suggest that it will continue to do so in ways we cannot foresee."
 
Technology used in Adult Literacy Programs - This is a paper on how technology is affecting adult literacy programs.
 
Tella: Virtual School in a Networking Learning Environment - The present paper describes factors that have facilitated the transformation of industrial societies to information and network societies; the possibilities of virtual school as a future-oriented school form; the tools of the new information and communication technology; and global networking as a framework for the learning environment.
 
The Gutenberg Elegies - Excerpts from the printed book _The Gutenberg Elegies_ by Sven Birkerts. Concerning the ways language and thought change together in a little dance.
 
The Medium Is the Message - This article introduced the influential, misunderstood and, now, nearly cliche phrase, "the medium is the message," into the (post-) modern lexicon. A good introduction to McLuhan's ideas on the historical development of communication technology and its influence on the messages communicated.
 
The technplogy gap in U.S. schools - Although U.S. is the seeding ground for much of the technology development, the percentage of public school classrooms that have Internet connection is low...so how many students actually get access to this technology?
 
Will Libraries Survive? - Geoffrey Nunberg reviews the history and politics surrounding the digitization of libraries.
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