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So I am searching Google Scholar and two different online dbases, digging around (it almost feels like literally) in work on technology and higher education and literacy. It would seem like those terms would come together nicely, but in this part of the research world, they don’t — too many assume a) college kids can read b) reading at this level is a singular thing, related directly to the ability to succeed academically and c) if there’s technology involved, the only tech worth studying is that introduced by the college faculty themselves. Then you have the folks at EDUCause and the Pew Internet Project researching the uses of technology by students outside of school, but not from a literacy or new literacies perspective. And here I am, grabbing at disparate threads and trying to weave them together. The thing is, I’m just not sure what the overall weave shows quite yet — other than we assume we know what college-age students should be doing, for their own success, and we (as college faculty and researchers) hold the reins.

Do we? I still think there’s whole pieces to this puzzle that we’re missing.

February 13th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL