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Questions for Baron by JD Richgels

Questions for Baron by JD Richgels

I). What are ‘technologies’ that Baron is referring to?

1). What does Baron mean by technologies and what do they offer in the forms of literacy, or how can they be used to either empower literacy, or stunt it?

2). What are these “stages of technology”, and how do they allow access to students, or in what way do these stages from previous technologies allow accessibility?

 

II). What can the ‘power of font’ offer us as writers?

3). Baron describes different variations of powers that ‘font’ contains, how do they differ and where do they draw their power from?

4). We are told that computer displays hold specific ‘powers’ than typewriters did. What were these ‘powers’ and what did they do to a writer’s presentation of their ideas? How do these technologies affect our views of literacy today?

 

5). Baron describes certain challenges and dangers with a shift to digital literacy, what are these challenges and how does technology create them?

6). How can technological literacies interfere with authoritative authors? How do they make ‘fake authority speakers’ harder to filter out?

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