Monday, February 2, 2009
on literature and media literacy
I don't think that media literacy and print literacy need to be mutually exclusive. I do most of my research these days by searching the internet for resources. I wrote my latest book on Teaching Sherman Alexie using the internet, DSL connections to libraries and websites, almost exclusively. Of course, I have and have read all of Alexie's work on the page--collections of poems, short stories, novels, essays... It is a combination of print and media. I don't think that using the media and students' skills with media to intersect with Shakespeare, Elliot, etc. means that they will ignore the canon. I think that these days it's the only way to make relevant the classic or canonical texts. How much time do you spend "going to the library...?" How much time do you spend engaged with digitalia?
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