Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Gee, James. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning Literacy. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
In What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning Literacy, James Paul Gee argues that while video games are often seen as a waste of time for children, they can be an entertaining tool to increasing the literacy of [...]

Labbo, Linda D., David Reinking, and Michael C. McKenna. “Technology and Literacy Education in the Next Century: Exploring the Connection Between Work and Schooling.” Peabody Journal of Education, 73.3-4 (1998): 273-289.
In “Technology and Literacy Education in the Next Century.” the authors argue that technological literacy should be incorporated into the classroom as a standard in [...]

Nixon, Helen. “New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” Reading Research Quarterly 38.3 (Summer 2003): 407-413.
“New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” raises several questions important both to Nixon and the researchers looking into the literacies that surround various medias new to exploration. Nixon argues that with [...]

Hagood, Margaret C. “New Media and Online Literacies: No Age Left Behind.” Reading Research Quarterly (Summer 2003): 387-391.
Margaret Hagood’s “New Media and Online Literacies” asserts that in order to understand the full benefit of literacy acquisition through new medias researchers must use a close examination of the texts they study in order to comprehend the [...]

Hobbs, Renee and Richard Frost. “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills.” Reading Research Quarterly. 38.3 (Summer 2003): 330-355.
In “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills” (2003), Hobbs and Frost explore the acquisition of media-literacy skills in a yearlong high school English course and demonstrate how this class improved the literacy of the students. Examining one specific [...]