All, There are implications and warnings in the NAAL survey that can't be wrong-if the general trend of the numbers are at all accurate and revealing. One such finding is this: after 5 intense years of escalating use of computers and cell phones in schools, colleges, and the general culture; after five more years of television as the medium of choice for leisure time; after five more years of the spread of video game culture. . .after five such intense years of new media spread and immersion adult Americans, including American college graduates, are less able to read complex materials. Less able. Certainly not more able. Less able. One reason for trusting at least these gross findings of the study is that the findings are an embarrassment to the present US administration that sponsored the study , and its legislation intended to effect demonstrable improvement in general literacy, with increased use of educational technology a central piece of the platform. Less able. A honest appraisal of where we are now, what we know now, where we go from here with digital technology has to consider the possibility that that finding might be right, might stand up. If it does, what then? What do we say and do differently? Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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