Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
From literacy to digiracy
MHacker
follow
1
5-16-2008 11:52 AM
124 views
MHacker
says:
"Will reading and writing remain important?"
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life
Addicted to Grief?
Scientists find why we need to re-read a page
Sir Winston Churchill, Quote about Nazis
Abe Lincoln Quote
Google Logo Drawn By Kids
Simplicity
More clips from
MHacker
Book Drive for Iraq: How You Can Do Your ...
Damages Cut Against Exxon in Valdez Case
Playing 'hardball'
Today's Top Clips
Nothing to lose but their chains
Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Sustain Life In Atlantic Ocean
Images of Iceland
Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
The social psychology revolution is reaching its tipping point
Addicted to "clipmarks" in vacation..
1998: Syphilis Genome Sequenced; 2008: Syphilis on the Rise
Tibetan Flags Banned at Olympics
Growing Neural Implants
10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
May 16, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f4075c3-0d31-4d23-a201-0b82f933ba58/4A9B8E28-F444-4E57-9B0E-7012518DE78C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl" href="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl" style="font-size: 11px;">www.economist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl"><P>THE Macintosh has a lot to answer for. The first time your correspondent clapped eyes on its graphical user interface (GUI), he realised the game was up. The use of icons instead of written words seemed the final admission that we had given up trying to read and write, and had entered a post-literate age.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">According to Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of “The Dumbest Generation”, leisure reading among American 15-to-17-year-olds fell from 18 minutes a day in 1981 to seven in 2003.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">Mark Federman of the McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, argued that the telegraph was the first to “undo” the effects of the written word.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11392128&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">when we incarcerate teenagers of today in traditional classroom settings, they react with predictable disinterest and flunk their literacy tests. They are skilled in making sense not of a body of known content, but of contexts that are continually changing.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A9B8E28-F444-4E57-9B0E-7012518DE78C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK