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 this technology narrative was a stimulating experience because it helped me realize how much my perspective on technology has evolved over the years. I think that this was the first time that I ever sat down and addressed how great of an impact technology has had on my life, and how much it has […]
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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Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection
The technology literacy narrative depicts the growth of my relationship with technology and how it has become integral in my daily activities. In writing my narrative, I wanted to start off the piece by talking about my very first encounter with a technological device which was a cellular flip phone, a rather rare object you …
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 …
Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection
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Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection
When I started writing my Technology Literacy Narrative, I compiled a list of ways I have used technology. I was not surprised at the number of ways in which I use computers and the internet, but initially I did not consider how they affected my personality. On Friday morning, working on the 7th floor …
Brainstorming My Tech Narrative
In this post, I answer four questions to start brainstorming some ideas for my technology literacy narrative. Some of the ideas from these answers have been integrated into the narrative … Continue Reading →
Technology Literacy Narrative Reflection
While I was writing this narrative, I found it especially helpful to attack each of the four thought questions for five minutes to figure out what I actually had to say about the topic at hand. From these questions, I discovered that a one-word summation of my experience with technology would be, “anxiety.” While I …
Technology Literacy Narrative
When I started to think about technology and the role it has played in my life, I realized how much it has affected me throughout the years. I remember getting my first phone when I was in 2nd grade. But, it wasn’t until 3rd and 4th grade that I started using a computer and other …