HW of Elizabeth Hill Boone Homework Reading

First, the introduction of the article were trying to define or seprate two thing, Writing and Arts.It seens simple, picture and word. However, along with the research of the ancient culture, Asian, Maya, Pre-Cloumbian, etc, more "word" need to be define or explain. Moreover, the defination of the literacy, even illiteracy, or preliteracy need to give a meaning or boundary. Because of lack of the knowledge we create so far are not able to translate into the language human use. Also, most of the development were in "picture" or a symbol.
Second, the research of Pre-Columbian(the Author picked), found lot of the pictures of animals or words are similar with pictures. To define the meaning of literacy has to look back of human history, and find how they seen about reading. The morden common meaning of literacy is the ability to read and understand the meaning comtained. In addition, literacy could lead to the ability to write. In the article, the author gave a model of not ability to hear voice, but he can wirte a perfect melody.
Third, the writing in the discussion of these language based on the scolars of linguist, has arguments with. Writing and writing speech, first one is the gernal idea of writing, just write.But, after more expert join the development, more view of point been create.They think those signs is variety and contain meaning in. Second one, is writing spoken language, which still exist in the world, and using. The continuous of developing seen the writing has a formal and a correspondence to spoken langeage.
Finally, in my opinion, I think that author want to tell that the defination is hard to find and its boundary is unclear. Therefore, the literacy should not be limited. People envision information to reason about, communicate, document, and preserve the knowledge. For instance, the map we produce is to finding the location and direction of our position and where we are heading to. But it does not contain where is the exactly place of the target.

HW for April 8 How literacy and technology shape each other

The internet and computer both increase the speed of getting information and more convenient way of gathering knowledge, sharing opinion. On the other hand, literacy in more common in community. This increases the need of knowledge and information. The computer helps the subject of literacy sprat by internet. Moreover, programs in computer guiding people to find the right information they want in the worldwide internet. For instance, typing the key word in search engine. In addition, searching the information on the internet can find the latest one or the closest time to improve the certainty of the work. The wi-fi system has been built in many countries or cities. This reduce the limited wireless internet area and increase the convenience of using internet.Reading the ancient story, such as flying and even go into space, were pushing people forward to reach the goal, make it real.