presented by Ed Chang and Jentery Sayers, 10+31+2007

for research exposed! (general studies 391) at the UW

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What's Next?

To engage this question, how about we begin with a video?

The following, entitled "A Vision of Students Today," was created by Professor Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Perhaps you have already seen it, but let's give it another gander. As we watch, we might attend to how technology is "envisioned" or understood as part of students' everyday experiences.

What are your responses? Does this multi-tasking techno-life seem familiar?

How are technoliterate practices being demonstrated here? And what practices could be added or attended to?

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, undergraduates are represented in this video. How are they being represented and in what ways do those representations dissonate or resonate with our definition of technoliteracy? (Of course, our definition is by no means a standard. As such, perhaps this video opens how we are articulating "technoliteracy" to problems or unaddressed issues.)

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