Why Composition Specialists Need to Pay Attention
to Technology Issues
(from "Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention")
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Allowing ourselves the luxury of ignoring technology ... is not only misguided at the end of the 20th century, it is dangerously short-sighted. And I do not mean, simply, that we a re all - each of us - now teaching students who must know how to communicate as informed thinkers and citizens in an increasingly technological world - although this is surely so. This recognition had led composition faculty only to the point of using computers - or having students do so - but not to the point of thinking about what we are doing and understanding at least some of the important implications of our actions.
