Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection

Image Credit: Hand, typing, keyboard, laptop and man HD photo by Courtney Recker on Unsplash. At first I felt overwhelmed by writing this technology literacy narrative, since there’s too much to say about my experience using technology, something that my everyday life is rife with. I had no idea where to start, where to elaborate, or where to end, until I began to write in response to the question in prewriting section: when did I first come to interact with computer. Once I typed in the first sentence, everything just flowed out sequentially. I selected some most significant turning points of me using different media …

Reflection: Technology Literacy Narrative

Writing my technology literacy narrative was a grounding process for me because I had never seriously pondered the entirety of my relationship with technology. Whenever I thought about my use of and relations with technology, I had always taken for granted the fact that technology was so readily accessible, both in terms of its physical …

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Words Come before Seeing – Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection

But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. —–John Berger Ways of Seeing In my technology literacy narrative, I discussed how technology has influenced and challenged our ways of seeing, our ways of communication, and thus our ways of life. The different “rhetorical situations” between conventional media and new media prompted me to …