Tag: computer literacy

Struggle with wordpress

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Over at PRACE, we’ve been upgrading our website to wordpress, so that a range of people may author and edit content on the site. Yes it’s taken me quite some time to finally get the thing ready to show other co-ordinators, but it’s a lot of fun to work with the new system. It’s meant i’ve had to upgrade the wordpress on this site, to find out more about how it all works. (Upgrading is an adventure in itself.) .. and now, the editing (wysiwyg) toolbars don’t really work, the Read More …

Technology part of 'the humanities'?

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“Technology education is not a technical subject. it is a branch of the humanities.” – Neil Postman, from “The End of Education: redefining the value of school”. Neil is quoted on page one of Stuart Selber’s “Multiliteracies for a digital age”, whose first chapter is entitled “Reimagining Computer Literacy”. i had to include the quote, because it’s such a refreshing idea. Stuart begins his work by emphasising that the consequences and contexts of technology are the most important foci of ‘a worthwhile education’, rather than the technology itself. Yes!! Thank Read More …