Dave Cormier gets it right and wrong at the same time. He concludes, "This is my rant against digital literacies. The literacies that we need are not digital. THEY ARE HUMAN. We need to be responsible to the products of hands… even if they are typed through a keyboard. The digital may have given us an opportunity to band together, but the banding is not about technology, it's about us raising a very old standard." And, of course, this is exactly right. But the digital takes us beyond (what used to be) the merely human. As Chris says (in the excellent comment thread that follows the post) "almost no one who talks about 'digital literacy' is actually talking strictly about the digital. Everyone is muddling around in a misty and complex confusion of cognition, linguistics, creative and critical acts." Which is what I'm trying to get at with the 'speaking in LOLCats' model.
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